"Call it ultranaturalism."

• AO Scott in the NYT: "Alan, who [director Ira] Sachs has said was based on his own father, is a great character - passionate, complicated, bursting with life. Those words also describe [Rip] Torn's performance."

• The Reverse Shot team at indieWIRE. James Crawford: "[T]he most apt comparison for its even temper and tumble of unvarnished emotion lies across the ocean with French director Maurice Pialat"; Lauren Kaminsky: "[S]ingularly, quietly devastating"; Eric Hynes: "Credit Ira Sachs for giving Torn room to move, and for knowing that a professional supporting player and space-sharer would ultimately let his co-star, Dina Korzun, run off with the film."

Michael Atkinson in the Voice: "I kept thinking of the last decade of French films, by Assayas, Desplechin, Jacquot and Doillon. But the difference may be negligible - call it ultranaturalism, lingering in the culture water table from the 70s of Cassavetes, Rafelson and Schatzberg, and now a universal aesthetic too rarely achieved in the States."
• And Anthony Kaufman talks with the engaging director.

Posted by dwhudson at September 28, 2005 12:54 PM