Shotgun Stories [15]
Monday 16 June / 7.30pm
Tuesday 17 June / 8pm
Director Jeff Nichols
Cast Michael Shannon, Douglas Ligon
USA 2007 / Colour / 1hr 36m
The reservoirs of pain run fathoms deep in Jeff Nichols’ fable of Southern family feuding. The Hayes boys, Son, Boy and Kid, have endured hard, violent times and news of their long run-out patriarch’s death introduces them to his second family and an equally tough brood of half-siblings. The trio crashes the funeral and war is declared. A stunning biblical parable is set up with mood and ellipses favoured over momentum and explanations, which gives this contemporary narrative a beguiling, drifting atmosphere.
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