New Jerusalem
Basically a rehash of the same theme--- the world of a depressed individual--- that was explored in THE BUILDER , a film Alverson produced a year earlier. Only this time...
Rick Alverson (1971) is a independent filmmaker living in Richmond, Virginia. His 2015 feature Entertainment premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was the closing night film at New Directors/New Films. It was acquired by Magnolia Pictures. His previous dramatic, confrontational
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Basically a rehash of the same theme--- the world of a depressed individual--- that was explored in THE BUILDER , a film Alverson produced a year earlier. Only this time...
A plodding often-times unrelated sequence of images supposedly attempting to capture the depressed state of an individual but mostly a visualization of minutiae whether it be chipping away at wooden...
Alverson's film offers a study of two very different men trying to form a friendship for two very different reasons. The film is intimate, intense and disturbing. Alverson takes a...
Colm O'Leary has an interesting presence, but Alverson's film refuses to give the viewer much direct information about this builder. As this artfully filmed movie progresses the information slowly emerges....
did not understand..