"It’s literate, amusing and unexpectedly moving"sayid EH (LA WEEKLY) following it's Internatinal Premier at the LA Film Festival. I completely agree. I had the chance to catch Matt Bissonette's previous "Who Loves the Sun", with the brilliant Lukas Haas at the London Film Festival a couple of years ago, and came to the conclusion that Bissonette had achieved a perfect balance of comedy and drama, and managed in the way to throw in a witty and touching script, of which I still remember a couple of lines that to this day make me smile. Well, "Passenger Side" was a much awaited surprise and one that lives up to the great expectation, with plenty of unforgetable moments and situations that might make you squirm at times but always ring true, so that you might impulsively look round to your companion or other audience member to check whether they'd had the same reaction. Some might say that this is a blokes movie, but the sibbling rivalry and the day to day questions raised in this original road movie that takes two disfunctional brothers around LA for just one day will appeal to any man or woman who's had to resolve sibblin issues no matter what age, let alone those relating to love, relationships or the absence of them. With and excellent leading performance from Bissonette's second time colaborator Adam Scott, the film carries through the same wry and relaxed humour that has become a stamp in the director's work and that put this film in the same league and turns out just as consecuential as other now great classic road movies like "In the Course of time:Kings of the Road" by Wim Wenders and Francis Ford Coppola's "Rumble Fish" just to mention two. Both Coppola and Wenders were quite young too when they made these films, so my hopes are high for Bissonette to become a great 'auteur' in his own right and, if reputable UK broadsheets are anytning to go by, he's already in two lists of ten new important North American directors alongside Ryan Fleck and Ramin Bahrani.HP