Review: 'Amateur'

May 18, 1995

By Beth Accomando

Contradiction is something that has always intrigued filmmaker Hal Hartley. He even named his production company True Fiction Pictures. In his first feature, The Unbelievable Truth (prompting irony again), Hartley considered whether you could love someone but not trust them. He continued to develop that ironic dichotomy in his next two films, Trust and Simple Men