Diamond Tongues
Pavan Moondi & Brian Robertson, 2015
Catalog No.: FTF-060
Length: 100 minutes
Edith Welland (Leah Goldstein) dreams of being a successful actress but just can’t seem to make things happen. Things get worse when the ex-boyfriend she broke up with to focus on her career takes up acting on a whim and immediately books a leading role. When Edith can’t figure out what she’s doing wrong, she begins to do everything wrong. Diamond Tongues is a dramatic comedy about insecurity, uncertainty, unhealthy competition, and just about everything else between the lines.
Directed by Pavan Moondi and Brian Robertson
Written by Pavan Moondi
Produced by Sarah Haywood, Pavan Moondi and Brian Robertson
Cinematography by Peter Dreimanis
Composed by Brendan Canning
Starring: Leah Goldstein, Nick Flanagan, Leah Wildman, Adam Gurfinkel
Festivals: Slamdance Film Festival, Nashville Film Festival, Arizona International Film Festival, NXSE, Zanzibar International Film Festival and more
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PRESS
"A modern day All About Eve."
- Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter
"Sharp and thoughtful. An exercise in cringe comedy."
-Norman Wilner, NOW Toronto
"Refreshing because it isn’t an indictment of a demographic, or even of Edith, but is a portrait of a young woman who’s ambition has curdled into something more nasty along the way."
-Kevin Jagernauth, Indiewire
"Suggests All About Eve by way of The King of Comedy: contempt and envy reign and the threat of disaster closely follows."
- Calum Marsh, The Globe and the Mail
"Goldstein creates an iconic character consumed with envy in a way that’s both extreme and relatable"
- Paul Sbrizzi, Hammer to Nail
"It’s amazing how well the neophyte Goldstein captures a character whose envy, craftiness and ambition make her both unlikeable yet totally believable."
- Bruce DeMara, Toronto Star
"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."
- David Berry, National Post
"That the directors and Goldstein manage to make the narcissistic and self-defeating Edith somehow relatable — and at times even likeable — is a truly remarkable accomplishment, especially considering her deplorable and duplicitous actions."
-Kevin Scott, Exclaim!