Star rating: 5/5 Writer: Dervin Scott Director: Dervin Scott Aunt Cindy and The Alchemist is a spectacularly imaginative, collage-like work of film. Set between Arizona and all across Italy, this film written by Dervin Scott, was inspired by home video footage from the 1950s and the 1960s, and starts with the premise that ‘love is a funny thing’. Moreover, ‘we just can’t choose who we love. Sometimes love makes that decision for us’. The story begins when we meet a 1950’s ‘all-American’…
A giant sprawling novel that jumps between times and locations with multiple characters that don’t intersect often remains on the page as filmmakers decide that it’s too much for a cinema screen. How is an audience supposed to follow the film without constantly asking each other, “What’s going on now?”
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