“Seeing the outstanding
micro-budget slice-of-life feature Quietly On By tells me the DV
revolution is alive and well in Illinois. If writer, director, editor,
producer Frank V. Ross can keep casting such likable non-Hollywood types
for his characters, delivering super- naturalistic performances and
cutting to perfection -- showing us new sights in the American,
generation-now landscape -- he has a shot at becoming one of the
important names in modern indie moviemaking.”
--
Rick Schmidt, author of
Feature Filmmaking at Used-Car Prices, Extreme DV,
and co-writer/co-director/co-producer of Chetzemoka’s Curse (Dogme #
10), etc.
"I loved Frank V. Ross's
Quietly on By. It's a delicate mood piece centered around the life of a
sensitive but lonely and lost central figure, Aaron, who is in mourning for
a love affair that didn't work out and a life that seems to be on hold. This
is the territory many recent films, including some of the works of Wes
Anderson, have mined; but what makes Ross's film special is the authenticity
of the characters, performances, and setting. Nothing is heightened or
exaggerated, and none of the characters or their relationships is cartooned
or caricatured. Ross beautifully captures the longing and aimlessness of a
certain emotional moment all of us have experienced in our lives. It's a
really wonderful film. If you have a chance to catch it, by all means do."
--Ray Carney on
www.Cassavetes.com, author of Cassavetes on Cassavetes and other books
This is truly gut-wrenching
filmmaking in the manner in which we're made feel every giddily awkward
moment. None more so than when slacker-on-the-verge-of-a-nervous-breakdown,
Aaron practically breaks out in a sheen of anxious perspiration when he
meets Sara'a quick-witted, cool-as-a-breeze boyfriend. With some top-notch
naturalistic acting at his disposal Ross shows himself to be a master of
digital filmmaking and with Quietly On By he has created a film as free of
artifice as you're likely to see.
--Cork Film Festival
Quietly on by
93min/unrated/USA/2005
featuring music by:
The Darktown House Band /
Bridget Lyons /
Tony Baker