Behind the passage between legality and criminality on the part of ordinary people, good people, there's always the money. Or rather the lack of money. A family to feed, bills to pay, the refrigerator fill.
behind a mother trying to feed their children, there is always the lack of a husband. Maybe dead, maybe you ran off with a younger, perhaps in hiding.
Behind a lonely girl hiding something and trying to get by, there is always a young son, who can not keep, which can not grow and even from afar, quietly.
And in this film, there is a good person to the crime, whether a mother with dependent children, is a girl who can not help the mother. The finish then capitel alone.
acclaimed at the Sundance Film Festival, the first feature from Courtney Hunt seems to have been frozen, like that river of ice that the two protagonists must constantly cross. Frozen in a story seen before, that does not overheat, which gives the public a few emotions.
The first part is excellent, well built, with the protagonist who decides to continue this dangerous game which ended up by chance. The search for her husband leads her to discover something else, not only friendship but an escape from everyday life.
That 's what happens after that is not convincing and not emotion. The dangerous game at the end turns out not so dangerous. The two rotagoniste are never really involved in trafficking, they really put themselves into trouble. Even the inadvertent abandonment of a newborn baby in the middle of the ice and the anguish of killing him does not stand out so powerfully. It almost seems that does not give us anything or not much at the end of the vision.
Children, especially the 15-year-old, is virtually useless. In addition to risk setting fire to the house does nothing. Even disobeys his mother. It is not looking for trouble, nor to the contrary, do something positive. If her scenes had been cut during assembly, would not change anything.
Sometimes the Sundance Film Festival valito take some corner. "Frozen River" is still a film well shot, with an ever-present effect of the documentary (which seems the only way to shoot an independent film), but had to go deeper into the folds of noir and make each other stronger conflict a compelling, but too frozen, Melissa Leo.
behind a mother trying to feed their children, there is always the lack of a husband. Maybe dead, maybe you ran off with a younger, perhaps in hiding.
Behind a lonely girl hiding something and trying to get by, there is always a young son, who can not keep, which can not grow and even from afar, quietly.
And in this film, there is a good person to the crime, whether a mother with dependent children, is a girl who can not help the mother. The finish then capitel alone.
acclaimed at the Sundance Film Festival, the first feature from Courtney Hunt seems to have been frozen, like that river of ice that the two protagonists must constantly cross. Frozen in a story seen before, that does not overheat, which gives the public a few emotions.
The first part is excellent, well built, with the protagonist who decides to continue this dangerous game which ended up by chance. The search for her husband leads her to discover something else, not only friendship but an escape from everyday life.
That 's what happens after that is not convincing and not emotion. The dangerous game at the end turns out not so dangerous. The two rotagoniste are never really involved in trafficking, they really put themselves into trouble. Even the inadvertent abandonment of a newborn baby in the middle of the ice and the anguish of killing him does not stand out so powerfully. It almost seems that does not give us anything or not much at the end of the vision.
Children, especially the 15-year-old, is virtually useless. In addition to risk setting fire to the house does nothing. Even disobeys his mother. It is not looking for trouble, nor to the contrary, do something positive. If her scenes had been cut during assembly, would not change anything.
Sometimes the Sundance Film Festival valito take some corner. "Frozen River" is still a film well shot, with an ever-present effect of the documentary (which seems the only way to shoot an independent film), but had to go deeper into the folds of noir and make each other stronger conflict a compelling, but too frozen, Melissa Leo.
