SCREENING IN THE BERNARD OSHER FOUNDATION AUDITORIUM
“This film is a wonder - the best work yet by one of our most original and independent filmmakers - and after it is over, and you begin to think about it, its meanings begin to flower.”
NOTE: Advance registration for this event has reached capacity. A limited number of seats may become available at the door.
135 minutes. Rated R. Directed by John Sayles. In English. Followed by Q&A with John Sayles, Maggie Renzi, and Chris Cooper.
All BFF screenings are free and open to the public!
A keen observer of America’s social fabric, writer-director John Sayles uncovers the haunted past buried beneath a small Texas border town in this sprawling neowestern mystery. When a skeleton is discovered in the desert, lawman Sam Deeds (Chris Cooper), son of a legendary local sheriff, begins an investigation that will have profound implications both for him personally and for all of Rio County, a place still reckoning with its history of racial violence. Sayles’s masterful film—novelistic in its intricacy and featuring a brilliant ensemble cast, including Joe Morton, Elizabeth Peña, and Kris Kristofferson—quietly subverts national mythmaking and lays bare the fault lines of life at the border.