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‘Ham On Rye’ Is A Wonderfully Weird, Surreal Coming-Of-Age Satire [Review]
In the beginning, and just for a little while, Tyler Taormina‘s “Ham on Rye” seems like every other no-budget suburban coming-of-ager you’ve ever seen, if maybe better shot. Carson Lund‘s superb cinematography, apparently influenced by photographers like William Eggleston and Stephen Shore, picks out boys riding skateboards, borrowing Dad’s Volvo, and talking about the crucial importance of boning, like it’s a philosophy, like they’re the first ones ever to have had so original a thought.
