Wednesday, 15 January 2014

Shotgun Stories (2007 Jeff Nichols & scr)

Michael Shannon, Barlow Jacobs (the headstrong brother), Douglas Ligon (the one who sleeps in the van).

Shakespearean tragedy well placed in Arkansas setting, made with concision. You wonder whether the shotgun wounds (we assume from "protecting his family") were caused by the father. If so, that might have been made more explicit as it would have reinforced the film's basic premise of family feud; but maybe not.

I liked the detail of the stereo which comes on haphazardly.

Ph. Adam Stone in Panavision.

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