Lamb (2015)

Slo naslov: - 

Država: ZDA

Leto: 2015

Dolžina: 97',  Imdb

Žanri: Drama   

Slo recenzija: -

Režija: Ross Partridge

Scenarij: Ross Partridge, Bonnie Nadzam (knjiga)

Igrajo: Ross Partridge, Oona Laurence, Jess Weixler, Tom Bower, Scoot McNairy, Joel Murray

[ENG]

Lamb, based on the novel by Bonnie Nadzam, traces the self-discovery of David Lamb in the weeks following the disintegration of his marriage and the death of his father. Hoping to regain some faith in his own goodness, he turns his attention to Tommie, an awkward and unpopular eleven-year-old girl. Lamb is convinced that he can help her avoid a destiny of apathy and emptiness, and takes Tommie for a road trip from Chicago to the Rockies, planning to initiate her into the beauty of the mountain wilderness. The journey shakes them in ways neither expects. (Imdb)

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A dangerously unclassifiable relationship between two lost and lonely individuals is the focus of “Lamb,” writer-director-star Ross Partridge’s beautiful and troubling sophomore feature. In adapting Bonnie Nadzam’s novel about a middle-aged man who befriends a young girl and coaxes her into joining him for a week at his rural hideaway, Partridge navigates risky material with assurance, delicacy and a deepening sense of intimacy that can turn, without warning, into complicity: The more at ease we feel in the characters’ company, the more disturbingly questionable the situation becomes. Superbly shot and movingly acted, especially by young Oona Laurence, this arthouse-ready item should prove a potent conversation-starter at festivals, where even naysayers may be hard pressed to deny the film’s cumulative emotional impact. (Justin Chang, Variety)

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