Diamond Tongues
The movie is about Edith who dreams of being a successful actress, but cannot land any roles. When she can't figure out what she is doing wrong, she starts to descend into a downward spiral of destructive behavior.
8 November 1980, Fort Benning, Georgia, USA
18 November 1987, Brampton, Ontario, Canada
16 August 1972, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
August 12, 2015
Diamond Tongues is refreshing because it isn't an indictment of a demographic, or even of Edith, but is a portrait of a young woman whose ambition has curdled into something more nasty along the way.August 06, 2015
Diamond Tongues works both as a character study and an exercise in cringe comedy: you spend an hour and a half watching someone make a lot of bad choices, hoping that she'll learn from at least one of them.August 07, 2015
Suggests All About Eve by way of The King of Comedy: contempt and envy reign and the threat of disaster closely follows.February 15, 2016
Throughout, Pavan Moondi and Brian Robertson purposely indulge Hollywood formula only to subvert it.August 12, 2015
That she nonetheless emerges as all too relatable is a credit to Moondi's astute screenplay and the nerve-rattling performance by its lead performer, here making an auspicious acting debut.February 09, 2016
Witheringly funny, accurate and in the end touching take on a "type" -- the acting wannabe who turns bitter when success is elusive.August 06, 2015
Goldstein has something to fall back on if this music thing doesn't work out. In an impressive feature debut, she carries literally an entire movie.August 12, 2015
The second feature by Pavan Moondi and Brian Robertson, Diamond Tongues lives in its careful attention to detail, the meticulous but breezy way it captures Edith's meandering life as much as her increasingly destructive disenchantment.February 18, 2016
Ms. Goldstein gives a performance that requires her to swing between disarming and loathsome. She demonstrates impressive skill in slowly peeling away her character's charm.June 22, 2015
Diamond Tongues is a brilliant and realistic portrait of the young artist as a bitter borderline failure.