Phillip Lee Duncan

Doug Blankenship est un artiste folk américain raté qui a vécu auprès de sa mère les vingt dernières années après avoir quitté son service militaire et son ex-copine en Allemagne. Sur un coup de chance, Doug rencontre un producteur de cinéma venu d'Allemagne. Celui-ci lui promet de le faire venir à Berlin et d'y produire un de ses scénarios intitulé "Love Songs For Scumbags". Les scènes de ce film dans le film se déroulent à l'écran en même temps que l'on découvre la vie de sans-abri de Doug dans les rues de Berlin. Pendant ce temps, sa fille de 20 ans, que Doug avait perdu de vue depuis longtemps, se lance à sa recherche.

Love is a dirty business. The lack of love even dirtier. You can scrub and sing all day until your skin is as red as a valentine. But they will never return. This same body that moved them to tears, this same body that warmed them… is now frozen inside a song.

Duncan and Scheimberg with no money, no time, no script, and with one barely working camera, have tried to create a poetic look at loneliness in America. And by poetic I mean desperate, sad, cruel, and funny and by loneliness, I mean total self-absorption and rampant solipsism, and by America, I mean, everywhere. People will, more than likely, not relate to this film. They will feel infinitely superior to the trashy losers, mama’s boys, and genuinely evil mind-fuckers that populate this film. So… that’s something. It’s a start… Right?

Love is a dirty business. The lack of love even dirtier. You can scrub and sing all day until your skin is as red as a valentine. But they will never return. This same body that moved them to tears, this same body that warmed them… is now frozen inside a song.

Duncan and Scheimberg with no money, no time, no script, and with one barely working camera, have tried to create a poetic look at loneliness in America. And by poetic I mean desperate, sad, cruel, and funny and by loneliness, I mean total self-absorption and rampant solipsism, and by America, I mean, everywhere. People will, more than likely, not relate to this film. They will feel infinitely superior to the trashy losers, mama’s boys, and genuinely evil mind-fuckers that populate this film. So… that’s something. It’s a start… Right?