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PRAISE for THE REPLACEMENT CHILD:

"Like a perfect 'New Yorker' story. Powerful... Beautiful."
     - BRET EASTON ELLIS, author, AMERICAN PSYCHO, THE RULES OF ATTRACTION

"Lerner captures the stagnant heat and fractured beauty of the American countryside, in all its rigid hypocrisy."
     - SENTIERI SALVAGGI (full review: Italian | English)

Behance.com interview with Justin Lerner (full interview)

"...go-for-broke intensity and the willingness to venture into deep-seated religious fervor. It's also evident that [Lerner] really worked with the actors, and that's rare [in student work]."
     - KENT JONES, editor-at-large, FILM COMMENT magazine

"THE REPLACEMENT CHILD displays serious talent, both in the story and its cinematic execution... with spare but expressive mise-en-scene; the acting was top-notch, as was the accumulation of detail... here's to more Justin Lerner films we can watch."
     - ANNETTE INSDORF, contributing film critic/scholar, PREMIERE magazine, the LA TIMES, FILM COMMENT, Kieslowski biographer

"THE REPLACEMENT CHILD wore its Best Sound Design student award like a badge of honor. Shot over 11 days in the filmmaker's hometown of Wayland, MA...[it] played like a feature film on the immense DGA
screen."
     - INDIEWIRE.COM (full review)

"A morally complex coming-of-age tale which leaves more questions than in answers... the definition of great film -- and art in general."
     -PRONETWORKS.ORG (full review)

Festroia Interview with Justin Lerner

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