Get Low

Robert Duvall gives one of his best performances portraying a loner who decides to attend his own funeral

There's one in nearly every good folk yarn or fairy tale: the mysterious oldster living alone in the woods. In the case of the fact-based and transporting "Get Low," he's a loner who, in an unlikely instance of self-promotion, comes to be known as the Mysterious Hermit of Caleb County, and he's played with unerring understatement by Robert Duvall in one of his finest performances. In lesser hands this Southern saga might have collapsed into whimsical corn, but cinematographer-turned-director Aaron Schneider has fashioned a measured fable, witty and deeply felt, if at times tipping into melodrama. [...]

di Sheri Linden, articolo completo (3466 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 30 luglio 2010