SummaryWhen Harlan Carruthers (Norton), a charismatic cowboy who seems as if he would be much more at home in Monument Valley than in the San Fernando Valley, has a chance encounter with Tobe (Wood), a bored and restless suburban teenager, both of their lives are turned upside down. (ThinkFilm)
Directed By:David Jacobson
Written By:David Jacobson
Down in the Valley
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It's mysterious and bold at every turn, and refreshingly removed from the commonplace.
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Jacobson and his actors do so much with the characters that they leave an ambiguous residue of blood-streaked regrets and sadness.
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Writer-director David Jacobson has an excitingly clear-eyed, unsentimental feel for the intensity of adolescent passion.
63
As it progresses, the film takes us to another borderland, that between reality and delusion. This is where Harlan's mind freely gallops.
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For a film that has allegedly undergone extensive tinkering following its premiere at last year's Cannes Film Festival, Down in the Valley abounds in nagging loose ends and suffers overall from logy pacing.
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While Jacobson navigates the first half of Down in the Valley deftly, he loses his way in the second.
40
Never has the term 'American Independent' so obviously been code for 'wholly miserable experience'.
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