A beautifully restrained William Hurt and a luminous Maria Bello star alongside startling newcomers Eddie Redmayne and Kristen Stewart in this deftly acted four-hander, a soulful tale of love, loss and redemption set along the blue highways of rural Louisiana.
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This deadpan, pre-apocalyptic comedy of alienation and interdependence plays out through a series of elegantly composed, tangentially linked tableaux. Bypassing neorealism and absurdism, Swedish director Roy Andersson employs nonprofessionals and a fixed camera to achieve a poignant “trivialism.”
It’s no longer unusual or even surprising to see kids with video cameras, but the quality and diversity of the work they create continues to amaze and inspire. Come witness true teen talent in action (and animation)!
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This winner of the 2007 Venice Film Festival’s debut feature award depicts a group of upper-class Mexicans bent on eradicating the existence of a disadvantaged youth who becomes inadvertently trapped in their gated community.