Leah Land

Twitch is reviewed in the indies column of Film Monthly
November 5 2006

Young filmmaker Leah Meyerhoff writes and directs this short film that so far has won almost universal accolades on the festival set…The film unfolds without exposition, instead following (a) young teenager through a series of snapshot scenes, detailing her increasing neurosis that perhaps her mother’s disability is contagious. As the girl begins to believe that she, like her mother, will lose the use of her legs, the gulf that divides mother and daughter widens…It’s a strange, insular take on growing up and rings with the veracity of real-life experience…Twitch is a hard but impressive little film. The travails of growing up, the immense pain of post-adolescence, the terror of the big nasty world resting just outside our windows: Twitch augers in the universal places of hurt in the human brain. We can take solace that Meyerhoff is now working on her first feature-length film. Twitch shows great promise; we now must wait for Meyerhoff’s talents to fully bloom.

- Ben Beard
Film Monthly

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