Directed and co-written by one of the screenwriters of Vincent Gallo's "Buffalo 66," this low-budget, video-shot directorial debut bears a similarity to that film's aimless portrait of low-class drifters. Fannie, who lives with her father (Robert John Burke), largely spends her days singing self-composed country ditties into her tape recorder. [...] director Alison Bagnall concentrates on setting a disquieting mood of rural strangeness, and on such minor subplots as the appearance of a vaguely menacing figure (John C. Reilly, whose appearance can be explained by the fact that he's married to the producer) from Nile's past.

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