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Weightless

2017

Alessandro Nivola, Eli Haley, Julianne Nicholson, Johnny Knoxville ...

Drama Apart from a few simple houses, a bar, a gas station with a mini supermarket and a garbage dump, there really is nothing in rural Fulton County, Georgia. Introverted Joel works at the garbage dump where he sometimes finds a useful glass bottle or two, which he cleans up and takes home. Then, one day, he receives an unexpected phone call: his ex-wife has disappeared and it is now his responsibility to look after their son. Joel, about to ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"Quietly thoughtful but feels incomplete."	NEU
United States	Ken Jaworowski The New York Times	"Deeply damaged people are prone to exasperating decisions. Yet these characters are so strikingly realized that you can't help but care for them."	POS
United States	Dennis Harvey Variety	"Despite the emotional terra firma Nivola and other cast members try to provide, this drama (...)d drifts into the ozone."	NEG
United States	Serena Donadoni LA Weekly	"While [Albertin] first feature may be gorgeous, the characters in this rural family drama prove so amorphous that their struggles engender detachment instead of empathy."	NEU
United States	Katie Walsh Los Angeles Times	"There's a sense of beauty and contemplation in Albertin's work (...) [but] there's an odd lack of tension or suspense, and the film's pace requires incredible patience."	NEU

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