Limbo (1999)
Country: US/GER
Technical: col 127m
Director: John Sayles
Cast: Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, David Strathairn, Kris Kristofferson
Synopsis:
Alaska: the lives of a singer, her disgruntled teenage daughter, and an odd-job man with a tragic past become entangled and put under threat when his errant half-brother returns to the fishing town with angry drug runners at his heels.
Review:
A community portrait of the kind in which this director excels develops into something more intimate and psychological, as if he were wanting to anatomize what makes societies tick - or not. The drug story is a McGuffin, and the ending pure Antonioni.
Country: US/GER
Technical: col 127m
Director: John Sayles
Cast: Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, David Strathairn, Kris Kristofferson
Synopsis:
Alaska: the lives of a singer, her disgruntled teenage daughter, and an odd-job man with a tragic past become entangled and put under threat when his errant half-brother returns to the fishing town with angry drug runners at his heels.
Review:
A community portrait of the kind in which this director excels develops into something more intimate and psychological, as if he were wanting to anatomize what makes societies tick - or not. The drug story is a McGuffin, and the ending pure Antonioni.
Country: US/GER
Technical: col 127m
Director: John Sayles
Cast: Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, David Strathairn, Kris Kristofferson
Synopsis:
Alaska: the lives of a singer, her disgruntled teenage daughter, and an odd-job man with a tragic past become entangled and put under threat when his errant half-brother returns to the fishing town with angry drug runners at his heels.
Review:
A community portrait of the kind in which this director excels develops into something more intimate and psychological, as if he were wanting to anatomize what makes societies tick - or not. The drug story is a McGuffin, and the ending pure Antonioni.