We can only guess that Nichols' story is a sort of religious parable in which Michael Shannon and Kirsten Dunst are Joseph and Mary to son Jaeden Lieberher, who is some sort of super-being who belongs in the 'world above our world' - which when it appears looks super-dull. In the meantime some sort of militant cult folk are after him, as well as the police and investigator Adam Driver, who brings a certain lightness of touch the film needs. Has a whiff of
Close Encounters.
Adam Stone gives us some more lovely low-light celluloid photography but overall we were distinctly underwhelmed. Nichols'
Take Shelter had the same effect on me, leaving
Mud as his outstanding work.
Loving - about an inter-racial couple - is his latest.
Edited by Julie Monrow. Also featuring Joel Edgerton as an insanely loyal friend and Sam Shepard again.
For some odd reason it made me want to listen to Pink Floyd's 'Echoes'.
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