DESOLATION ANGELS

(89 min, 1996)
Written and Directed by Tim McCann
Starring Michael Rodrick, Jennifer Thomas, Peter Bassett

Winner – Int'l Critics Prize (FIPRESCI) – Toronto International Film Festival
Winner – Merchant Ivory|Kodak Award – Telluride Film Festival
Critics Choice – Rotterdam International Film Festival
"One of the best films of the year!" The Village Voice, Chicago Reader, etc.

“No wonder Jonathan Demme and Barbet Schroeder have joined forces in presenting Tim McCann’s knockout debut feature… It is an utterly compelling portrait of depth and complexity… 
A thoroughly unsettling and sensitive drama of acute psychological insight.”
Kevin Thomas, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES 

“Very unlike anything else in American filmmaking… A film with an undeniable moral vision.”
Jonathan Rosenbaum, CHICAGO READER 

“An ultra-low budget drama of considerable accomplishment and sometimes extraordinary power… This is probably as devastating a portrayal and indictment of modern male insensitivity as any film has given us recently… One of the year’s more impressive debuts.”
Michael Wilmington, CHICAGO TRIBUNE 

“Male ego is the demon in this blazingly provocative debut film from the gifted Tim McCann…  You won’t stop talking about this one.”
Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE 

“McCann’s grimly compelling Desolation Angels takes American independent filmmaking back to where it began – in the male angst of movies like John Cassavetes Husbands.”
Dave Kehr, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

“A wrenching, smart and bleakly funny debut feature by the uncompromising and very talented Tim McCann…  Outstanding.”
Amy Taubin, VILLAGE VOICE

“Harrowing and though provoking… The movie is so on target about all the macho bullshit that it makes you think Valerie Solanas was right.”
Dennis Dermody, PAPER MAGAZINE