A Love Song
Year: 2021
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Run Time:
81 minutes
After unhitching her camper at a lakeside in the mountains, Faye finds her rhythm cooking meals, retrieving crawfish from a trap, and scanning her old box radio for a station. She looks expectantly at the approach of a car or the mailman, explaining to neighboring campers that she’s waiting for a childhood sweetheart she hasn’t seen in decades. When he does arrive, Lito and Faye, both widowed, spend an evening reminiscing about their lives, losses, and loneliness. A whimsical romance, Max Walker-Silverman’s captivating debut feature shows an "American West" full of quietude, compassion, and introspection. It’s both naturalistic and vaguely surreal, blurring our sense of time and beauty, loss and vivacity, the grandiose natural world and intimate humanism. Career performances from Dale Dickey and Wes Studi bring an inescapable presence to people we don’t often see portrayed on film. They are gentle outliers possessed of resilience and existential spirit, seeking to process something elusive: a feeling of love for what’s no longer there. Like Faye turning her radio dial, they listen hopefully for the faint trace of A LOVE SONG. —Sundance Film Festival
CIFF46 Screenings
Upper Allen
Saturday, April 02, 2022 at 5:05 PM
Sunday, April 03, 2022 at 12:05 PM
Accessibility (?)
Closed Captions: Yes
Audio Description: No
English Subtitles: No
Sidebars
Women of the World
Only at Playhouse Square
Competition
American Independents Competition
Director
Max Walker-Silverman
Producers
Jesse Hope, Dan Janvey, Max Walker-Silverman
Screenwriting
Max Walker-Silverman
Cinematography
Alfonso Herrera Salcedo
Editing
Max Walker-Silverman, Affonso Gonçalves
Principal Cast
Dale Dickey, Wes Studi, Michelle Wilson, Benja K. Thomas, Marty Grace Dennis, John Way
Obscured Pictures
http://obscuredpictures.com
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