The Station Agent (2003)
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor Montreal 90m
Director: Tom McCarthy
Cast: Peter Dinklage, Patricia Clarkson, Bobby Cannavale
Synopsis:
A dwarf working in a New Jersey model shop inherits an old station house in the sticks from his kindly and eccentric patron. He takes the early retirement to which he is entitled and determines to live a life of solitude, pottering around the old station and watching the odd train, but soon finds himself sucked into the small community in which he finds himself.
Review:
This unlikely subject for an American movie outside Jim Jarmusch quickly seduces through its understated, totally believable central performance and the engaging nature of its secondary characters. Fin's emotional asceticism might make one question the dogged attention of his new neighbours, but he has just the right degree of reserve and at the same time vulnerability to make him attractive to both male and female acquaintances. Not a lot happens in this movie but it is one of those films which creates a space for its characters to live and breathe, and has you dreaming of the possibilities of a quiet life in the remote countryside safe in the knowledge that the souls there are just as needful of human warmth and a darned sight more interesting than city folk.
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor Montreal 90m
Director: Tom McCarthy
Cast: Peter Dinklage, Patricia Clarkson, Bobby Cannavale
Synopsis:
A dwarf working in a New Jersey model shop inherits an old station house in the sticks from his kindly and eccentric patron. He takes the early retirement to which he is entitled and determines to live a life of solitude, pottering around the old station and watching the odd train, but soon finds himself sucked into the small community in which he finds himself.
Review:
This unlikely subject for an American movie outside Jim Jarmusch quickly seduces through its understated, totally believable central performance and the engaging nature of its secondary characters. Fin's emotional asceticism might make one question the dogged attention of his new neighbours, but he has just the right degree of reserve and at the same time vulnerability to make him attractive to both male and female acquaintances. Not a lot happens in this movie but it is one of those films which creates a space for its characters to live and breathe, and has you dreaming of the possibilities of a quiet life in the remote countryside safe in the knowledge that the souls there are just as needful of human warmth and a darned sight more interesting than city folk.
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor Montreal 90m
Director: Tom McCarthy
Cast: Peter Dinklage, Patricia Clarkson, Bobby Cannavale
Synopsis:
A dwarf working in a New Jersey model shop inherits an old station house in the sticks from his kindly and eccentric patron. He takes the early retirement to which he is entitled and determines to live a life of solitude, pottering around the old station and watching the odd train, but soon finds himself sucked into the small community in which he finds himself.
Review:
This unlikely subject for an American movie outside Jim Jarmusch quickly seduces through its understated, totally believable central performance and the engaging nature of its secondary characters. Fin's emotional asceticism might make one question the dogged attention of his new neighbours, but he has just the right degree of reserve and at the same time vulnerability to make him attractive to both male and female acquaintances. Not a lot happens in this movie but it is one of those films which creates a space for its characters to live and breathe, and has you dreaming of the possibilities of a quiet life in the remote countryside safe in the knowledge that the souls there are just as needful of human warmth and a darned sight more interesting than city folk.