Sundance ’13: Stylized Love in ‘Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman’

He did it all for love. One of the recurring themes of this year’s Sundance Film Festival is the lengths we go, the decisions we make, all in the name of love, in the heat of passion. The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman is the feature debut of highly acclaimed commercials & music video director Fredrik Bond, telling a story of love set mostly in Bucharest, Romania starring Shia LaBeouf as Charlie. As one would expect from a commercials director, it’s a very stylized, very music video-esque film but I don’t mind, I loved it. It got to me in all the right ways and was entertaining to watch. A hell of a feature debut for Fredrik Bond. The film kicks off with Charlie, played by a long-haired and gruff Shia LaBeouf who gives an impressively emotional and bloody performance, watching his mother pass away in Chicago. The voice over (with …