The great thing about Film Festivals is the diverse range of movies that are shown, everything from straight forward Blockbusters to independent movies, world cinema to short films and right up to plain old "What The Hell Did I just Watch?!" movies. I really love those movies simply because there different and the filmmaker refuses to reform to 'standards' and will get its premiere at Sundance Festival tonight at the midnight programme.
At one point I thought I was watching another Joaquin Phoenix movie as the guy in this movie Cornelius Rawlings(played by Tully himself) does resemble Phoenix as he is now from I'm Still Here. The Rawlings family are a strange buch of folks with Conrnelius a grifter who disappears for over 18 years suddenly returns home whom his brothers Ezra & Amos live in isolation from the outside world. The we have Red a neighbour who happens to be sleeping with a underage girl who clicks on what the Rawlings brother past is until a drifter appears and seems to soak up all the troubles, strange but riveting!!!
At one point I thought I was watching another Joaquin Phoenix movie as the guy in this movie Cornelius Rawlings(played by Tully himself) does resemble Phoenix as he is now from I'm Still Here. The Rawlings family are a strange buch of folks with Conrnelius a grifter who disappears for over 18 years suddenly returns home whom his brothers Ezra & Amos live in isolation from the outside world. The we have Red a neighbour who happens to be sleeping with a underage girl who clicks on what the Rawlings brother past is until a drifter appears and seems to soak up all the troubles, strange but riveting!!!
Eighteen years after disappearing without a trace, Cornelius Rawlings returns to his family's farm. While his parents are long deceased, Cornelius's brothers continue to live in isolation on this forgotten piece of land. Ezra is a freak for two things: cleanliness and Jesus. Amos is a self-taught artist who fetishizes sports and Satan. Although back home, Cornelius is still distant. In between challenging strangers to one-on-one games, he huffs and drinks the days away. The family's high-school sports demons show up one day in the guise of a plumber and a pretty girl. Only a mysterious drifter can redeem their souls on 4th and goal.
Triple-threat actor/writer/director (and disturbingly gifted athlete) Michael Tully creates a backwoods world that's only a few trees away from our own, complete with characters on the edge of sanity that we can actually relate to. A hero tale gone wrong, Septien is funny when it's inappropriate to laugh, and realistic when it should be psychotic. Goooaaaaaaaaal!
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