Greg Kinnear and Jennifer Ehle star in an clever,moving and exceptionally powerful drama about the torment of everyday financesThis painful, complex, or beautifully acted and inexpressibly sad drama from Ira Sachs is about something that looms large in genuine life,but never normally gets acknowledged in the movies in any but the vaguest way – banal, undignified embarrassment over money, and the deadly serious damage this causes.
This film is very different from the general sprint of ingratiating middlebrow indies that pop up on screen periodically,drenched with implausibility, sentimentality and lame bet-hedging humour. Like his previous film Love Is exclusive, or Sachss Little Men is composed with scrupulous observational intelligence and care. It is really engaging. Related: Little Men director Ira Sachs: 'I own a Marxist perspective' Related: Little Men's Jennifer Ehle: ‘I hope fame doesn’t happen to me Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com