24 April 2009

Truth will set you free

American Violet

Crit

Well, OK, look: sometimes, things really are black and white, good and evil, and pathological racism is as good a place to look as any. A committed performance by Nicole Beharie as a single mother wrongly charged with drug trafficking; a very strange performance by Tim Blake Nelson, who, after several roles as a dim rural southerner, seems uncomfortable as a Jewish ACLU lawyer; and a grounding performance by Will Patton, a lawyer who takes Dee's case even though he has to live in the white Texas community.

My first recollection of Patton is as the psychotic bodyguard in No Way Out; he has aged well, with a beautiful small role in Wendy and Lucy as well as this one.

Trailers

These are actually from the sports movie last week; forgot to record them:

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