Frozen River - River ice
I talia 2002
Courtney Hunt. With Melissa Leo, Misty Upham, Charlie Mc Dermott, Mark Boone Jr.., Michael O'Keefe, Jay Klaitz, Bernie Littlewolf, Dylan Caruana.
boundary between the State of New York and Quebec, a few days before Christmas. Ray was no money left by her husband and two sons, one 15 and one 5 years. The family was about to realize the dream of a new prefabricated house to replace the one in progressive deterioration in which its members live. One day
Littlewolf Ray meets Lila, a young woman from the Mohawk community that lives on the banks the St. Lawrence River that ice in winter, becomes a road used to bring illegal immigrants in the United States. Lila belongs to ride and Ray ends up side by side.
Courtney Hunt, in his debut as director and screenwriter, has not only had an Oscar nomination but has brought fortune to his lead actress Melissa Leo (also present at the Oscars of the five best actresses and winner of a series awards in other events).
Having obtained the Jury Prize at Sundance, Frozen River enters rightfully part of that American independent cinema that still exists and is able to escape the temptations of mainstream.
You could, at first glance, accusing him of idealize the human condition that goes to tell. The natives live on illegality but are basically good-hearted, noble feelings feed the poor and so forth ...
But it is not because this is a film that pushes the viewer to go beyond the first impression. Recounting the meeting of two women tried by life, dig in the sense of responsibility towards their children by placing the issue in a context that cinema made in the USA we have become accustomed to see represented in other climates. The smuggling is almost always tied to the Mexican border. The finding him on the screen in the frozen north change the coordinates of perception, not only visual. The icy
trading makes it more concretely tragic (as if we were in a film by the Coen) the size of survival at the price of the exploitation of other human beings. Hunt
however, in a film in which mark the boundaries of their obligations not only between the States and the reserves but also between people, knows peer into the depths of the human being. His gaze is directed towards a hearing going on in two women, separated by culture and origins, the gradual heating of an effort of solidarity.
Giancarlo Zappoli
www.mymovies.it
"Cartellazzi road green with white lettering Land of Mohawk, shabby gas stations, drugstores rickety, rusty gutters from prefabricated houses and instead of an icy river.
'Frozen River', regia di Courtney Hunt, è collocato e diluito in mezzo a questi elementi d'ambiente che lo sorreggono e arricchiscono di suggestioni visive.
Campi lunghissimi per almeno venti-trenta minuti di film che amplificano l'allontanamento, l'essere sui generis del luogo.
Il fiume ghiacciato, infatti, è pista, percorso provvisorio e clandestino che collega Canada, stato del Quebec, e lo stato americano di New York.
Tragitto abusivo, improvvisato e rischioso attraverso il quale lavoratori stranieri, o non statunitensi, entrano illegalmente negli Stati Uniti. (...)
La macchina da presa della quarantaquattrenne Courtney Hunt, alla sua opera prima, è lievemente indecisa su come gestire la vicinanza fisica del mezzo ai protagonisti, just after deciding that the landscape has to do significantly with peers and draw bodies and faces.
The result is a film aesthetically and experience still unclear, however, supported by a certain concreteness in imposing syncopated rhythm to the story and a script full of ideas in a radial pattern: the number of cases of illegal immigrants have never been addressed in growing or making them rhetorically emblematic, the Ray edgy relationship with his eldest son, that sort of autism annoying Lila.
And then there's the issue of illegal immigration: strong, intense and penetrating that it can not remain indifferent.
Melissa Leo, pretty face and marked tonic body, has always been an honest set up all'exploit of 'Frozen River'. "
Davide Turrini
'Liberation', February 20, 2009
review Mimosa forever
Littlewolf Ray meets Lila, a young woman from the Mohawk community that lives on the banks the St. Lawrence River that ice in winter, becomes a road used to bring illegal immigrants in the United States. Lila belongs to ride and Ray ends up side by side.
Courtney Hunt, in his debut as director and screenwriter, has not only had an Oscar nomination but has brought fortune to his lead actress Melissa Leo (also present at the Oscars of the five best actresses and winner of a series awards in other events).
Having obtained the Jury Prize at Sundance, Frozen River enters rightfully part of that American independent cinema that still exists and is able to escape the temptations of mainstream.
You could, at first glance, accusing him of idealize the human condition that goes to tell. The natives live on illegality but are basically good-hearted, noble feelings feed the poor and so forth ...
But it is not because this is a film that pushes the viewer to go beyond the first impression. Recounting the meeting of two women tried by life, dig in the sense of responsibility towards their children by placing the issue in a context that cinema made in the USA we have become accustomed to see represented in other climates. The smuggling is almost always tied to the Mexican border. The finding him on the screen in the frozen north change the coordinates of perception, not only visual. The icy
trading makes it more concretely tragic (as if we were in a film by the Coen) the size of survival at the price of the exploitation of other human beings. Hunt
however, in a film in which mark the boundaries of their obligations not only between the States and the reserves but also between people, knows peer into the depths of the human being. His gaze is directed towards a hearing going on in two women, separated by culture and origins, the gradual heating of an effort of solidarity.
Giancarlo Zappoli
www.mymovies.it
"Cartellazzi road green with white lettering Land of Mohawk, shabby gas stations, drugstores rickety, rusty gutters from prefabricated houses and instead of an icy river.
'Frozen River', regia di Courtney Hunt, è collocato e diluito in mezzo a questi elementi d'ambiente che lo sorreggono e arricchiscono di suggestioni visive.
Campi lunghissimi per almeno venti-trenta minuti di film che amplificano l'allontanamento, l'essere sui generis del luogo.
Il fiume ghiacciato, infatti, è pista, percorso provvisorio e clandestino che collega Canada, stato del Quebec, e lo stato americano di New York.
Tragitto abusivo, improvvisato e rischioso attraverso il quale lavoratori stranieri, o non statunitensi, entrano illegalmente negli Stati Uniti. (...)
La macchina da presa della quarantaquattrenne Courtney Hunt, alla sua opera prima, è lievemente indecisa su come gestire la vicinanza fisica del mezzo ai protagonisti, just after deciding that the landscape has to do significantly with peers and draw bodies and faces.
The result is a film aesthetically and experience still unclear, however, supported by a certain concreteness in imposing syncopated rhythm to the story and a script full of ideas in a radial pattern: the number of cases of illegal immigrants have never been addressed in growing or making them rhetorically emblematic, the Ray edgy relationship with his eldest son, that sort of autism annoying Lila.
And then there's the issue of illegal immigration: strong, intense and penetrating that it can not remain indifferent.
Melissa Leo, pretty face and marked tonic body, has always been an honest set up all'exploit of 'Frozen River'. "
Davide Turrini
'Liberation', February 20, 2009
review Mimosa forever
