If you loved Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, try To Die For
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by Gus Van Sant, and they both carry the playful mood tag, and they sit in Comedy / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
playful
What To Die For is
Small town New Hampshire, winter, a local TV station's dull hum. A weathered news desk, a young wife's calculated smile, a ruthless climb up the media ladder. Van Sant frames satire through suburban desperation.

