garage

eu não teria vocabulário suficientemente rico para descrever tão bem o filme que vi ontem, provavelmente o último em alguns meses, no Luísa Todi. Na agradável companhia de três joões :-)
Go Tom Huddleston:

"...In this case the central figure is Josie, a slow-witted garage attendant and local joke who derives meagre satisfaction from the small things in his life: a conversation with a passing trucker, feeding an apple to a chained horse, a quiet pint in the evening. The landscape of Josie’s life is as empty as the featureless agrarian backdrop, and although he seems to long for something more he is trapped by circumstance and his own deep-seated fear and bewilderment.
But Josie is forced to deal with the wider world when the garage owner hires on extra help in the form of David, a bumfluff moustached, Korn t-shirt wearing 15 year old metalhead. David is initially sceptical of the arrangement, but Josie wins him over by plying him with cans of beer for himself and his small band of friends. The two form a halting friendship, and Josie finds himself gradually accepted into a wider circle for the first time in his life."

"Everything about Garage feels considered, from the excellent casting to the spare but involving script, from the near-absence of music to the very particular choice of locations. The photography is simple but effective, utilising long, mostly static camera positions, isolating the actors within the barren landscape. The film is not easy viewing—a slow, deliberate but essentially lighthearted first half gradually gives way to a sense of bleak desperation, and the ending is inevitably devastating. But Garage has its rewards, most notably in Pat Shortt’s performance, and the very real sense of hapless humanity which he invokes."

"Garage", de Leonard Abrahamson. Irlanda 2007