DVD Reviews: Blue Valentine, Meskada and Cul De Sac
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011One of the true gems of 2010, Blue Valentine, writer-director Derek Cianfrance’s heartbreaking debut effort, was mismarketed to within an inch of its life, and also suffered from “second-child syndrome,” which is to say the relative cold shoulder it got from the Weinstein Company’s PR team, which instead (and to considerable success and Oscar glory, it turns out) threw almost all of its weight behind The King’s Speech. A lot of the pre-release buzz on Blue Valentine, meanwhile, had to do with an appeal to the MPAA over a NC-17 rating (it was released rated R), which made the movie seem like some seamy, Joe Eszterhas-type sex flick. Nothing could be further…












