“Writer-director Steven Peros has brought off something very delicate, and moving in Footprints. He’s commemorated a place most of us know only through the mythic mirrors of the movies – Hollywood Boulevard, with all its glitzy temples to celebrity and their shadowy, mausoleum-like side-streets. He’s gotten it right in a day to day sense that is satisfyingly accurate to those of us lucky (and weird) enough to live and work there.

What’s more impressive, he’s breathed life into the ghostly atmosphere that has haunted the place since its first big dreamers showed up, nearly a century ago. Having an amnesiac heroine makes this particularly dramatic. What is Hollywood after all, but a place where dreams are remembered, but dreamers forgotten?

H.M. Wynant and Pippa Scott are both particularly good in their turns as two souls who’ve grown old in this unforgiving place. Sybil Temtchine – as the young wanderer who must remember who she is, wake up, or give up – has a silent, involving force. She's a sublime reactor, as she needs to be, throughout. Her melancholy beauty is a natural grace note, but it’s because of her inwardly layered, listening poise that the otherworldly surprises of the film come off so well.”