Tennessee

Pair of Brothers in a Grand Ole Soap Opry

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 determined to find a visionary beauty in desolate wasteland.
It is outside Albuquerque that Carter Armstrong (Adam Rothenberg), a cabdriver in his early 30s, lives a marginal existence in a trailer with his younger brother, Ellis (Ethan Peck, grandson of Gregory). [...]

di Stephen Holden, articolo completo (2724 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 5 giugno 2009