The plot involves former and present lovers of the girl and her mother, sunken treasure (yes, sunken treasure), conflicts across the generations and murders more complex by far than they seem at first. Miss Warren creates a character so refreshingly eccentric, so sexy in such an unusual way, that it's all the movie can do to get past her without stopping to admire. The mistress is played by a relatively unknown actress and sometime singer named Jennifer Warren, who has the cool gaze and air of competence and tawny hair of that girl in the Winston ads who smokes for pleasure and creates waves of longing in men from coast to coast. And from the moment he sets eyes on the stepfather's mistress, the movie, which has been absorbing anyway, really takes off. Harry traces the missing girl to her stepfather, a genial pilot in the Florida Keys, and goes there to bring her back. His confrontation with the man, like so many scenes in the movie, is done with dialog so blunt in its truthfulness that the characters really do escape their genre. Harry takes the case, pausing only long enough to track down his own missing wife - who is, it turns out, having a not especially important, affair with a man with a beach house in Malibu. He's a private detective for reasons, vaguely hinted at, involving his childhood.Ī Hollywood divorcee, clinging to the last shreds of a glamor that once won her a movie director (and half the other men in town, she claims) hires him to trace down her missing daughter. He's a former pro football player and a man of considerable intelligence, whose wife ( Susan Clark) runs an antique business. In 2017 the MoMA devoted a mid-career retrospective to this original figure of American independent cinema, presenting the six feature films she has made since 1994.The eye this time is named Harry Moseby, perhaps with a nod toward Hackman's great performance as Harry Caul in " The Conversation," perhaps not. ![]() In 2016, Reichardt wrote and directed the acclaimed work Certain Women. Her first feature film debut was River of Grass (1994) followed by the dramas Old Joy (2006), Wendy and Lucy (2008) and the Western Meek’s Cutoff (2010). Kelly Reichardt (1964) is an American screenwriter and film director, known for her sensitive and minimalist style. According to The Guardian’s film critic Peter Bradshaw, “Night Moves is like a suspense movie held in suspense: a thriller that behaves as if it is a gentle, indie-arthouse film concerned only with evoking the static beauty of nature.” The psychological thriller, co-written by independent filmmaker Kelly Reichardt and her regular collaborator Jonathan Raymond, was able to debut in competition at the Venice Film Festival and the Toronto Film Festival in 2013, obtaining a very positive reception. Negotiations behind the scenes have resolved the matter and the action was dismissed in February 2013. ![]() The novel, also focused on eco-terrorism, was about to be turned into an authorized film directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman and produced by Edward R. In September 2012, in the midst of the Toronto Film Festival, as producers of Night Moves looked for buyers, the yet-to-be-developed film received an allegation of plagiarism because its plot was considered too similar to story of the popular Edward Abbey novel The Monkey Wrench Gang. ![]() ![]() Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning and Peter Sarsgaard star as radical environmental activists whose act of eco-terror plunges them into a moral maelstrom, in the highly anticipated film from acclaimed American auteur Kelly Reichardt.
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