| Overview: | Charles is in love with his invisible girlfirend, Joan of Arc, so he decides to ride his big red bicycle from Monroe through rural Louisiana to find her in a New Orleans bar. Along the way, he encounters a farmer, a witch, a tin man, FDR's delapidated boat, and a man who honors the dead.
Working within the tradition of creative nonfiction, the Boston Globe compares Invisible Girlfriend to "the intersection of Flannery O'Conner Avenue and Werner Herzog Boulevard." Ultimately, it is a Southern story that transcends literal interpretations of images in order to open up rich, loamy textures of humor and drama. The cinematography is startling in its intensity and violent beauty, representing an optical trope that offsets the desperate love that Charles sets off on his journey to find.
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