Simple Men (1992)
Country: US/GB/IT
Technical: col 105m
Director: Hal Hartley
Cast: Robert John Burke, Bill Sage, Martin Donovan, Karen Sillas, Elina Löwensohn
Synopsis:
A criminal takes his kid brother upstate to Long Island to look for their father's house, and they coincide with two women, one who runs a diner and fears the return of her criminal ex-husband, while the other is their old man's girlfriend!
Review:
Hartley returns to types from The Unbelievable Truth (the same actor even plays another garage owner!), and has them spouting more self-conscious aphorisms and generally behaving like characters from the French New Wave (Burke's character owing more than a soupçon to Belmondo's in A bout de souffle). Its faux-naïf charm is somewhat more 'faux' than 'naïf' this time, however, the opening heist scene coming across like a school play, and the thesaurus-speaking sheriff and anarchist prayer-response scene overplaying their Godardian hand.
Country: US/GB/IT
Technical: col 105m
Director: Hal Hartley
Cast: Robert John Burke, Bill Sage, Martin Donovan, Karen Sillas, Elina Löwensohn
Synopsis:
A criminal takes his kid brother upstate to Long Island to look for their father's house, and they coincide with two women, one who runs a diner and fears the return of her criminal ex-husband, while the other is their old man's girlfriend!
Review:
Hartley returns to types from The Unbelievable Truth (the same actor even plays another garage owner!), and has them spouting more self-conscious aphorisms and generally behaving like characters from the French New Wave (Burke's character owing more than a soupçon to Belmondo's in A bout de souffle). Its faux-naïf charm is somewhat more 'faux' than 'naïf' this time, however, the opening heist scene coming across like a school play, and the thesaurus-speaking sheriff and anarchist prayer-response scene overplaying their Godardian hand.
Country: US/GB/IT
Technical: col 105m
Director: Hal Hartley
Cast: Robert John Burke, Bill Sage, Martin Donovan, Karen Sillas, Elina Löwensohn
Synopsis:
A criminal takes his kid brother upstate to Long Island to look for their father's house, and they coincide with two women, one who runs a diner and fears the return of her criminal ex-husband, while the other is their old man's girlfriend!
Review:
Hartley returns to types from The Unbelievable Truth (the same actor even plays another garage owner!), and has them spouting more self-conscious aphorisms and generally behaving like characters from the French New Wave (Burke's character owing more than a soupçon to Belmondo's in A bout de souffle). Its faux-naïf charm is somewhat more 'faux' than 'naïf' this time, however, the opening heist scene coming across like a school play, and the thesaurus-speaking sheriff and anarchist prayer-response scene overplaying their Godardian hand.