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It’s hard to review Todd Rohal’s The Guatemalan Handshake. It doesn’t follow a set narrative structure; there is no complete story. Take Richard Linklater, Harmony Korine, and David Lynch, combine them into one man, shackle them to strange, small-town America, and inject them with thoughts of short shorts, strange characters, and lots of atomic buzzing — soon after, just possibly, you can start to imagine what’s in store for you with that film.

At its vaguest, the film chases what happens

after one man disappears one strange afternoon in a rural town near Three Mile island. Musician and actor Will Oldham, who has worked with indie names from John Sayles to Harmony Korine, begins the tale as Donald Turnupseed — a young man who walks off and vanishes during a big potential outage. No one seems particularly concerned about his disappearance, except the young Turkeylegs (Katy Haywood), who tries to get the police involved before getting distracted by the crazy public who surround her.

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Original post by Monika Bartyzel