Réalisation:
David Gordon GreenScénario:
David Gordon GreenPhotographie:
Tim OrrActeurs·trices:
Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell, Michael Angarano, Griffin Dunne, Jeannetta Arnette, Nicky Katt, Tom Noonan, Connor Paolo, Olivia Thirlby, Pat Healy (plus)Résumés(1)
Arthur Parkinson's high school band practice is interrupted by the terrible noise of gunfire, announcing the tragedy that will devastate his small Northeastern hometown. Annie Marchand, Arthur's one-time babysitter and the object of his childhood adoration, is a beautiful and impetuous young woman whose life hasn't turned out right. While Arthur is entering into his first true romance with Lila, the eccentric new girl in school, Annie struggles to raise her four-year-old daughter alone. Her estranged husband, Glen, recovering from a botched suicide attempt, seeks answers in a born-again church while trying whatever it takes to get back into Annie's life. His attempts are met first with suspicion, and finally with hostility. Alone, all hope gone, he plans his final, desperate act. (Wild Bunch Distribution)
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Critiques (2)
Everything works perfectly. This minimalist shot film deals with relationships separated into several stories and roughly in the middle, an unexpected event breaks, from which the film falls into a tough and raw drama with excellently played characters by Kate Beckinsale and especially Sam Rockwell. The dialogues are real and urgent, the cold snowy landscape provides a fantastically captivating atmosphere, and the slow ethereal music only adds color to this superbly directed piece that may probably have a hard time gaining wider recognition, but that doesn't take away from its quality at all. Beckinsale delivers maybe the best performance of her career so far.
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Seemingly nothing is happening here, the inhabitants are marked by everyday routine, and the suffocating atmosphere of a small town occasionally manifests itself in a small scandal or radical act that becomes the main gossip for a while. It took a while to embrace these rules, but enjoying the escalating mood is worth it. The sad paradox is that although the script sets the stage for the ending from maybe halfway through, it ultimately undermines itself with its unnecessary haste. 70% and rounding down for that final disappointment.
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