David Fenster's feature debut tells the loopy story of a depressed businessman who inexplicably finds himself in the middle of the desert, gets nearly all his clothes stolen by a passer-by and eventually installs himself as the overseer of an abandoned junkyard paradise. The movie is less about plot than it is about a feeling - specifically, an evocation of the desolate road poetry remembered from the best films of Wim Wenders and Jim Jarmusch. Fenster seems to say that you can feel as alone in the city as you can in the desert, and he has a pretty original way of saying it. - Scott Foundas LA WEEKLY ////// Defiantly minimalist, David Fenster's "Trona" marks a striking feature debut by a filmmaker with a taste for moribund humor and the ironies of the American Dream. Tracking the so-called Man With the Mustache (played with Keatonesque deadpan by David Nordstrom) from an innocuous business trip to a bizarre detour into a totally new life in the California desert, Fenster's film intrigues with its use of big physical space and bigger narrative gaps. Trona itself, once a company town and always one of the strangest California communities, has never been better documented.- Robert Koehler VARIETY ////// Bonus Features: TrailerShort Film (sketch of Trona made prior to the film) Extended footage of the band Fireworks.

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