When Jerome’s ex Clémence reenters the picture, Gina is sent on a downward spiral of miscommunication, masochism, and madness. In-spired by European erotic dramas from the 70’s, THIRST STREET burrows deep into the delirious extremes we go to for love.
27 July 1984, Pasadena, California, USA
8 July 1951, Santa Monica, California, USA
31 August 1943, Marciac, Gers, France
November 21, 2017
Few filmmakers are capable of imagining anything worse than supernatural horror or overly conventional heartbreak and Silver ends up creating something in between those worlds.September 28, 2017
There's not much in the way of bruising insight into the makeup of a deteriorating personality, but for a compact spin through well-trod fields of lustful, sad-mad blindness, "Thirst Street" has its share of disreputably perverse pleasures.September 21, 2017
Lindsay Burdge's intrepid performance as a woman unable to let go of a one-night stand galvanizes Nathan Silver's sharply stylized character study.December 01, 2017
So no, it's not a sly, dark, romantic deadpan comedy after all. It's dark all right - but it looks more like a train than a light at the end of the tunnel.September 20, 2017
Burdge holds the picture together, playing a character who walks a fine line between being sympathetically damaged and terrifyingly loony.October 03, 2017
Thirst Street deserves your attention thanks to its vividly assured visuals.September 29, 2017
Visually arresting with vibrant, expressive colors and a surreal atmosphere, Thirst Street resembles those French Emmanuelle skin flicks you weren't supposed to watch.October 20, 2017
Thirst Street is a corrective to the scores of movies - American and otherwise - that portray unrequited romantic obsession as something other than what it really is: a slippery slope that's all but guaranteed to end with someone getting hurt.November 21, 2017
Somehow, her acting combines with cinematography straight from an artsy 1970s porno and a soundtrack of woozy love songs to create an expressionist portrait of overwhelming loneliness.September 21, 2017
Thirst Street remains baffling and confused, unworthy of Burdge's performance.October 05, 2017
Normally, I'm eager for a story about a woman humiliating herself for love, but the tone of this fanciful film at times struck me as all wrong.September 20, 2017
The result is a slow-motion car crash that you intimately experience from both in and outside the car. There's just enough distance to allow for wisdom but not enough so as not to feel the impact.