DVD Review - Winter Passing
Winter Passing is a quiet little film that has some good things about it. It is written and directed by Adam Rapp and even though it is obviously a first feature there are things I really liked about it.
Reese Holden (Zooey Deschanel) is an actress who gets small roles in offbeat theater productions. She also tends bar to make ends meet. Reese is into drugs and casual sex. She seems like a sad and bitter young woman. I was appalled by the way she handled the situation with her sick cat. But she is not meant to be a likable character.
We find out that her mother recently died and that she did not attend a funeral. Her father is a writer but she has not seen him in ages. Reese is approached by a woman named Lori Lansky (Amy Madigan) who wants to publish letters that her father and mother wrote to each other a long time ago. At first Reese doesn't want any part of this but she soon changes her mind.
Her time with her father Don (Ed Harris) is quite life altering. He is still reclusive but less so because he now has two people living with him. Corbit (Will Ferrell) is a Christian musician who is very strange but also sweet. And Shelly (Amelia Warren) is a former student of Don's who he helped get through an illness.
I liked the way the characters interacted with each other and there were many scenes that were very touching. However, Rapp has a bit of a way to go as a filmmaker because something about the look of the film is a little amateurish. But still and all I liked this film. It certainly helped that the performances by Deschanel and Harris were very good. Warren did a find job in her role and Ferrell was very sweet in a low key turn.
I can recommend this to those of you who like small films that take their time to unravel. And I hope that your DVD copy is better than the one I had because it skipped on one DVD player (15 minutes worth) but played on the external computer drive only to crash it (happily it was temporary and the problem was reported to the ever reliable Netflix).
Reese Holden (Zooey Deschanel) is an actress who gets small roles in offbeat theater productions. She also tends bar to make ends meet. Reese is into drugs and casual sex. She seems like a sad and bitter young woman. I was appalled by the way she handled the situation with her sick cat. But she is not meant to be a likable character.
We find out that her mother recently died and that she did not attend a funeral. Her father is a writer but she has not seen him in ages. Reese is approached by a woman named Lori Lansky (Amy Madigan) who wants to publish letters that her father and mother wrote to each other a long time ago. At first Reese doesn't want any part of this but she soon changes her mind.
Her time with her father Don (Ed Harris) is quite life altering. He is still reclusive but less so because he now has two people living with him. Corbit (Will Ferrell) is a Christian musician who is very strange but also sweet. And Shelly (Amelia Warren) is a former student of Don's who he helped get through an illness.
I liked the way the characters interacted with each other and there were many scenes that were very touching. However, Rapp has a bit of a way to go as a filmmaker because something about the look of the film is a little amateurish. But still and all I liked this film. It certainly helped that the performances by Deschanel and Harris were very good. Warren did a find job in her role and Ferrell was very sweet in a low key turn.
I can recommend this to those of you who like small films that take their time to unravel. And I hope that your DVD copy is better than the one I had because it skipped on one DVD player (15 minutes worth) but played on the external computer drive only to crash it (happily it was temporary and the problem was reported to the ever reliable Netflix).
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