herringbonekid
I'll Lock Up
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- East Sussex, England
Northfork is a small independent film that may have slipped beneath the radar for many here. set in Montana in the 50s, the film has two related story lines: an evacuation committee ('evacs') are sent to a small town to try and convince the last remaining habitants to leave so the area can be flooded as part of a dam project. and a priest watches over a dying boy who sees visions of 'angels'.
the film borrows quite a lot of its look and feel from the coen brothers and david lynch (one scene in a diner featuring the FBI-looking evacs and a deep voiced octogenarian waitress could almost be a lynch parody) but it has its own brand of eerie whimsicality too. shot in colour but with an almost monochrome palette (ALL the cars are black) the film looks great and the wardrobe has an austerity that makes it feel almost 30s rather than 50s. if you like arty, slightly surreal but accessable films then look out for it.
(if you think the characters in the back seat are dressed a bit TOO early compared to james woods in the front, thats because he's day-dreaming them)
the film borrows quite a lot of its look and feel from the coen brothers and david lynch (one scene in a diner featuring the FBI-looking evacs and a deep voiced octogenarian waitress could almost be a lynch parody) but it has its own brand of eerie whimsicality too. shot in colour but with an almost monochrome palette (ALL the cars are black) the film looks great and the wardrobe has an austerity that makes it feel almost 30s rather than 50s. if you like arty, slightly surreal but accessable films then look out for it.
(if you think the characters in the back seat are dressed a bit TOO early compared to james woods in the front, thats because he's day-dreaming them)
