Down in the Valley

It’s like a Springsteen-song gone really bad. Or like a modern countryballad. The gas station down on the corner. Thirty something cowboy wannabeHarlan pumps gas while waiting for something better to come along.When bikini-clad teenager Tobe (Oscar-worthy performance by Evan Rachel Wood)comes to save his day and takes him to the beach, it is love at first sight.Not surprisingly, Tobe’s daddy disapproves of the relationship and Harlan doesnothing to improve the situation by befriending Tobe’s insecure and quietyounger brother Lonnie. Harlan is in the beginning very charming belief thathe is the last outlaw cowboy, slowly becomes a dangerous threat to the family.There’s gonna be a showdown, and it’s not gonna be pretty. Director Jacobson has borrowed extensively from the epic western, many of the classic symbols are present in Down in the Valley. It could have given the film an almost archaic look, but Jacobson incorporates them in the modern urban settings in a way that intensifies Harlan’s psychopathic desperation over not seeing Tobe, and of being born in the wrong century.MATTIAS DAHLSTRÖM

Premiärstatus
Skandinavisk premiär: Medverkande
Edward Norton, Evan Rachel Wood, David Morse: Producent
David Jacobson, Stavros Mejros, Bill Migliore,Edward Norton, Adam Rosenfeld & Holly Wiersma: Manus
David Jacobson: Foto
Enrique Chediak: Musik
Peter Salett: Talat språk
English