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Bare

Country: USA, Language: English, 88 mins

  • Director: Natalia Leite
  • Writer: Natalia Leite
  • Producer: Chad Burris; Mateo Frazier

CGiii Comment

Leite's writing is somewhat bizarre...supposedly feminist, yet the central performance bows down to and scrapes the barrel of the shabbier male psyche...

By becoming a stripper (implausibly) due to meeting an un(un)ruly, lesbian drug-dealer...Leite's brand of fem-politics unravels...or, rather, self-destructs almost instantaneously.

The stereotyping of gender roles is - for want of some better words - prosaic...hum-drum...lazy.

How can a young, down-at-heel woman be liberated by stripping...is the drool from those lascivious men the catalyst for her escape?!?

Technically, it's a competent film with performances to match. However, the writing is devoid of material...coupled with a direction that lacks substance...the result is - overwhelmingly - threadbare.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Sarah, a young woman living in a small desert town in Nevada, becomes romantically involved with a female drifter who leads her into a life of drugs, stripping, and psychedelic spiritual experiences.

Cast & Characters

Dianna Agron as Sarah Barton;
Paz de la Huerta as Pepper;
Chris Zylka as Haden;
Louisa Krause as Lucille Jacobs;
Mary Price Moore as Linda Barton;
Lora Martinez-Cunningham as Jaz;
Alexandra Roxo as Ginger;
Travis Hammer as Billy;
Kelley Lewallen as Jenny;
Kelly Pittman as Diana