Film Forum
209 W Houston St
212.727.8110
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Ballast
- When
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Oct 1, 2008 – Oct 14, 2008
Daily (1:15, 3:15, 6, 8 & 10pm)
- Where
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- Price
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$11
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Note:
This Thursday's 8pm showing is already sold out.
When his brother ODs, Lawrence attempts suicide. Instead of dying, however, he slowly mends his fraught relationship with his troubled nephew James, and James' mother, Marlee, a former drug addict. With its nonprofessional cast shot solely in available light, Ballast achieves a naturalism typically accomplished only at great cost and with largely artificial measures. If its basic premise — how a Mississippi Delta family negotiates the legacy of poverty — is typically the stuff of documentaries, this dramatic feature's stakes build with a blue-shadowed intensity and deliberation that only fiction can afford — and that is rarely found anywhere outside of Europe, these days.
