Wednesday, February 19, 2014

You Can Count on Me

Laura Linney, Mark Ruffalo    w?d Kenneth Lonergan

His debut film still shines. This is an intelligent, nicely crafted and thought-out exploration of the lives of two siblings who suffered the traumatic loss of both their parents in childhood. They have 'issues' and have a hard time dealing with life in different ways: she has become stiff, rigid, unavailable emotionally...he is a fuck-up, wandering from place to place with no sense of purpose or direction.

Both players were superb. Everything about this film was well done. This is what you can do with a limited budget, imagination and an understanding of the forces that shape people.

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