A 'Romeo and Juliet' Story Turns Incestuous in Seattle Film Fest Entry 'The Automatic Hate'

I met director Justin Lerner in Austin at a hole-in-the-wall bar during the SXSW Film Festival, where he pitched his effectively eerie family drama "The Automatic Hate" as a combo of Thomas Vinterberg's "The Celebration" and Robert Altman's "The Long Goodbye." A shrieking Dogme95 incest drama meets a Raymond Chandler potboiler? I was intrigued. Writer/director Lerner and co-writer Katharine O'Brien set up a bait-and-switch mystery that then pulls us into the world of an unstable and broken family as their buried grudges of the past come into shattering present-day focus. "Automatic Hate" begins as an alluring young blonde (Adelaide Clemens) drops on...

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