The Hottest State

I could not get into the story at all, and cannot identify with the characters. Initially the film shows two people having sex all the time.

There's a lot to like in Hottest State, even if far from perfect.Ethan Hawke's direction of his (probably autobiographical) novel sets the mood perfectly, with great music, lighting and good pacing of this story.

Fabulous movie. The dichotomy of the two characters' personalities is simply amazing.

I saw this film in Venice on Saturday 2 September. I absolutely loved it!

This film combines the beyond tedious work of a writer who doesn't know how to tell an interesting tale with the visual melange of a director who mistakenly thinks a multiplicity of images multiplies effect. As both the writer and director of The Hottest State, Ethan Hawke proves he should really stick to acting.

This comment is aimed at those people who got the DVD of THE HOTTEST STATE as a gift from someone (or as part of a blind "grab bag" purchase, part of an inheritance, part of a theft, etc.), and are curious to see an Ethan Hawke project talk love to death WITHOUT involving Julie Delpy (BEFORE SUNRISE & BEFORE SUNSET).

I'm not kidding, I saw this movie in my darkest times. Until then I had no idea that a work of art can save your life.

I saw this film at the LA Film Festival and found it to be a boring talk-fest between two largely unsympathetic, unconvincing characters. If Hawke was trying to channel Linkletter's Before Sunrise/Sunset, he should have also created characters whose motivations and reactions are at least somewhat plausible, even if they happen to be 20 year olds.

The Hottest State is the story of William, played by Mark Webber (Storytelling), an up and coming young actor in New York City who meets the unassuming Sarah, played by Catalina Sandino Moreno (Maria Full of Grace), one night at a local bar. There's an immediate attraction.