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| P.J. Boudousqué stars in "Coldwater" |
Since its SXSW premiere, Vincent Grashaw's "Coldwater" has embarked on a successful festival run, leading up to where I caught it in Birmingham at the Sidewalk Film Festival. Following a wayward teen's abduction and forced placement into a privately-run juvenile behavior reform camp, "Coldwater" is a brutal, visceral take at the real and often hushed world of privatized rehabilitation. With facilities operating without local or federal regulation, these programs have free range to 'reform' their clients (or, rather, inmates). Grashaw's lens is not afraid to show what most filmmaker's cameras would turn away from.
