Tennessee

Perhaps the best thing one can say about the brothers-on-the-road indie "Tennessee" is that having one of the biggest music stars on the planet as the third lead doesn't upset director Aaron Woodley's visually arresting but overly self-conscious glum-fest. In fact, Mariah Carey, as a Texas diner waitress who joins Carter (Adam Rothenberg) and his sick younger sib Ellis (Ethan Peck) on their return [...] Vai alla recensione »

There are signs that Aaron Woodley, the director of “Tennessee,” an earnest, increasingly preposterous road movie about unhealed family wounds and fraternal bonds, wanted to make a Terrence Malick film. In the early scenes of the movie, whose setting shifts from the desert outskirts of Albuquerque to Texas, Oklahoma and finally Tennessee, the camera studies the glowing Western sky at twilight as though [...] Vai alla recensione »