First Love, Last Rites

Jesse Peretz made his directorial debut with this intimate romantic drama adapted from a short story by Ian McEwan, switching McEwan's setting from an industrial English seaside town to the Louisiana bayou. Joey (Giovanni Ribisi) and Sissel (Natasha Gregson Wagner) live in a drab house on stilts, ...more

The former bassist for the Lemonheads and a veteran music video director, Jesse Peretz makes his film debut with the slow mood piece First Love, Last Rites. Giovanni Ribisi as New Yorker Joey and Natasha Gregson Wagner as the bayou native Sissel share a steamy romance in a lazy shack, where each has plenty of time and no responsibilities. It is never explained how these characters met, and not much happens to them plot-wise, but the scenes spend plenty of intimate time with the young lovers to ...more