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Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean

2012 · 1h 33m · UNRATED Drama
Directed by Matthew Mishory

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Part period melodrama, part film noir, part 50s road movie "JOSHUA TREE, 1951" is a portrait of screen legend and outsider icon James Dean as you have never seen him before.

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The movie is art and borders on art-film pretentiousness here and there, but there's no question that it's also mesmerizing and sexy.

David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle
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A prologue featuring French poet Rimbaud underlines Mishory's vision of the American actor as part of a line of iconoclastic artists. But his pre-fame Dean seems more sullen brat than talented maverick.

Alissa Simon, Variety

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