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Vendredi, août 6th, 2010 |
Watch Lone Star Movie Online.
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This is one of those films where words of praise seem to be almost always inadequate. I think LONE STAR may turn out to be a classic. It is certainly one of the best films Sayles has yet given us. The story is richly textured and wonderfully complex in it’s characters, it’s social themes and it’s who-done-it mystery.
This film covers a potpourri of subjects: racial strife, national identity, interfamily relationships, political corruption and political correctness, among others. That Sayles is able to contain all these tumultuous matters in one film and make them work naturally within the structure of that film is nothing short of miraculuous.
The performances are uniformly excellent, with Chris Cooper and Elizabeth Pena standouts as former high school sweethearts who were torn apart by their parents. The reason for their separation is not what it at first seems to be and it is one of the “kickers” of this movie. Francis McDormand is featured as Cooper’s bipolar ex-wife in a wonderful cameo. McConaughey is fine in flashbacks as Cooper’s legendary lawman father. Kristofferson is all snake venom as a corrupt and murderous sheriff. Joe Morton is properly reserved as the commander of a local military installation, a man who has worked his way up in a formally structured institution, coming to terms with his estranged father, a former numbers runner and gambler who is now the owner of the only local bar that caters to the Afican American community.
This film is gorgeously shot in Super 35 by Stuart Dryburgh, who has captured the modern American Southwest in a way that few other cinematographers have. You can almost feel the sun on the back of your neck.
The DVD is light on extras but that is compensated for by the Amazon price. Grab this and settle back for an evening of challenging, adult entertainment.
Lone Star is about a lot of things. It’s about a small town sheriff’s investigation of a thirty year old murder which may have involved his father, a local hero. It’s about his childhood sweetheart, a Latina public school teacher, and her mother, a successful restauranteur who pretends her roots are Spanish rather than Mexican. It’s about a black army colonel who is posted to command a closing base near his estranged father’s nightclub. It’s about his father and his son. It’s about a small town on the border between the US and Mexico, and it’s about the borderlands between history and legend, between fact and truth, between love and enmity. It’s a romance, a mystery, an unblinking portrait of an American town at the end of the twentieth century.
It’s possibly the most intelligent commentary on American history I have ever seen or read, and the fact that it’s so damned smart doesn’t make it one iota less entertaining. John Sayles is a master, and this is his best film yet. The cast, the screenplay, the cinematography, the setting–everything is perfect, and everything combines to make a film one can watch over and over and over again, gleaning something new each time.
If I could make every US citizen watch one movie, this would be it.
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