There's a lot going on in The Power of Few, the directorial debut from Leone Marucci. The movie features five different storylines which intersect, literally, at one New Orleans crossing, which is doused in violence and bloodshed. At the same time, the movie suggests that our fates aren't necessarily set, and that every person's actions have a ripple effect that can be felt across the world. Oh, also, there's the theft of an incalculably valuable religious icon, and a lot of big-name actors who show up in what is, essentially, a very small movie. Christopher Walken is a homeless man with a secret. Christian Slater is a secret agent trying to track a stolen package. Jessie Bradford is on the run from gangsters Juvenile and Anthony Anderson. Q'orianka Kilcher is the messenger who runs smack into all of it. Moon Bloodgood is a pregnant shopkeeper whose store ends up held...
- 2/27/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
There's a lot going on in The Power of Few, the directorial debut from Leone Marucci. The movie features five different storylines which intersect, literally, at one New Orleans crossing, which is doused in violence and bloodshed. At the same time, the movie suggests that our fates aren't necessarily set, and that every person's actions have a ripple effect that can be felt across the world. Oh, also, there's the theft of an incalculably valuable religious icon, and a lot of big-name actors who show up in what is, essentially, a very small movie. Christopher Walken is a homeless man with a secret. Christian Slater is a secret agent trying to track a stolen package. Jessie Bradford is on the run from gangsters Juvenile and Anthony Anderson. Q'orianka Kilcher is the messenger who runs smack into all of it. Moon Bloodgood is a pregnant shopkeeper whose store ends up held...
- 2/27/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Title: The Power of Few Director: Leone Marucci Starring: Jesse Bradford, Christopher Walken, Q’orianka Kilcher, Christian Slater, Nicky Whelan, Moon Bloodgood, Anthony Anderson, Juvenile, Devin Gearhart, Tione Johnson When Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction” hit big in 1994, like an open-handed smack to the face of the film industry proper, its stylized noir plotting, fizzy mixture of violence and pop cultural dissection, and in particular its partite storytelling structure spawned a tsunami of imitators. Almost two decades later, that influence can still be felt, most recently in the form of writer-director Leone Marucci’s caffeinated, terminally bizarre “The Power of Few.” A New Orleans-set tapestral affair whose disparate storylines nominally coalesce over the course of one afternoon, this jumbled [ Read More ]
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- 2/26/2013
- by bsimon
- ShockYa
There is one catastrophic ending, but from multiple perspectives.
“The Power of Few” is told from different viewpoints leading up to a catastrophic in New Orleans. Several off-beat characters are either witnesses or victims to the ultimate demise of a drive-by shooting, a car crash and a convenience store robbery in that order.
The first viewpoint is about Cory (Devon Gearhart) who must go down to the convenience store to acquire medicine, but lacked the money to pay the pregnant proprietor Mala (Moon Bloodgood) and her aspiring actor/husband Shane (Derek Richardson).
Then the film shoots off to two government agents Clyde and Marti (Christian Slater and Nicky Whelan) in a taxi cab seeking out a possible terrorist and bomb in New Orleans.
Another perspective is from a motorcycle deliverywoman Alexa (Q’orianka Kilcher) hired to deliver a package, but saves Dom (Jesse Bradford) from assassination by local thugs Junkshow...
“The Power of Few” is told from different viewpoints leading up to a catastrophic in New Orleans. Several off-beat characters are either witnesses or victims to the ultimate demise of a drive-by shooting, a car crash and a convenience store robbery in that order.
The first viewpoint is about Cory (Devon Gearhart) who must go down to the convenience store to acquire medicine, but lacked the money to pay the pregnant proprietor Mala (Moon Bloodgood) and her aspiring actor/husband Shane (Derek Richardson).
Then the film shoots off to two government agents Clyde and Marti (Christian Slater and Nicky Whelan) in a taxi cab seeking out a possible terrorist and bomb in New Orleans.
Another perspective is from a motorcycle deliverywoman Alexa (Q’orianka Kilcher) hired to deliver a package, but saves Dom (Jesse Bradford) from assassination by local thugs Junkshow...
- 2/26/2013
- by Gig Patta
- LRMonline.com
Written and directed by Leone Marucci, this picture follows six different points of view unfolding on one sunny New Orleans afternoon, spanning twenty minutes of time, where each segment eventually intersects in one climactic moment where criminals and a high profile religious based heist collide.
Living in squalor with his hopped up mom (Louise Linton, Lions For Lambs) and baby brother, Cory (Devon Gearhart, Funny Games) decides that he must acquire medicine for his ailing brother, and thus takes off on a mission to rob The Space Bar, an internet café/grocery store run by the pregnant Mala (Moon Bloodgood, Terminator Salvation). Mala has been arguing with husband Shane (Derek Richardson, Hostel) about his aspiring acting career. Meanwhile, undercover agents Clyde (Christian Slater, True Romance) and Marti (Nicky Whelan, Halloween II) are on the hunt for a suspect that may have recently stolen the Shroud of Turin from the Vatican,...
Living in squalor with his hopped up mom (Louise Linton, Lions For Lambs) and baby brother, Cory (Devon Gearhart, Funny Games) decides that he must acquire medicine for his ailing brother, and thus takes off on a mission to rob The Space Bar, an internet café/grocery store run by the pregnant Mala (Moon Bloodgood, Terminator Salvation). Mala has been arguing with husband Shane (Derek Richardson, Hostel) about his aspiring acting career. Meanwhile, undercover agents Clyde (Christian Slater, True Romance) and Marti (Nicky Whelan, Halloween II) are on the hunt for a suspect that may have recently stolen the Shroud of Turin from the Vatican,...
- 2/22/2013
- by Ken Parker
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Meaningless Affect: Marucci’s Interactive Film Project a Dreadful Observation of Social Awareness
Moments into Leone Marucci’s incomprehensibly obnoxious new film, The Power of Few should have one pondering not only how some of the notable cast members signed onto the film but how this received funding in the first place. Assaulting the senses like a New Orleans set Crash (2005) meeting indefinably interconnected drek of something like Answers to Nothing (2011), this amateur circus of poorly conceived nonsense may have been borne out of good intentions, but only serves to reinforce the notion of what path they pave. Developed by writer/director Marucci and producer/star Q’orianka Kilcher as an interactive project meant to involve a global audience, where online voters were able to determine casting, costumes, location, editing, and story development, results in what feels like the product of Communism on filmmaking. “God save us from the innocent and the good,...
Moments into Leone Marucci’s incomprehensibly obnoxious new film, The Power of Few should have one pondering not only how some of the notable cast members signed onto the film but how this received funding in the first place. Assaulting the senses like a New Orleans set Crash (2005) meeting indefinably interconnected drek of something like Answers to Nothing (2011), this amateur circus of poorly conceived nonsense may have been borne out of good intentions, but only serves to reinforce the notion of what path they pave. Developed by writer/director Marucci and producer/star Q’orianka Kilcher as an interactive project meant to involve a global audience, where online voters were able to determine casting, costumes, location, editing, and story development, results in what feels like the product of Communism on filmmaking. “God save us from the innocent and the good,...
- 2/14/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
I’d never heard of that movie before, either, but The Power of Few has my full attention. The trailer has been going around the net these past few days featuring Hollywood’s favorite grandpa Christopher Walken, Christian Slater, Anthony Anderson, Moon Bloodgood, Q’orianka Kilcher, and Jesse Bradford.
An interconnected crime story comes from the first time writer/director Leone Marucci. The some sort of multi-perspective crime caper doesn’t seem to have a release date in the Us at this point.
The film was reportedly shot in New Orleans, where an outreach strategy created opportunities for young locals, homeless people and senior citizens to join the cast and the crew. The producers of The Power of Few collaborated with associations like Volunteers of America and The Covenant House of New Orleans to hire local veterans and homeless people, young and old, to be part of their cast and crew.
An interconnected crime story comes from the first time writer/director Leone Marucci. The some sort of multi-perspective crime caper doesn’t seem to have a release date in the Us at this point.
The film was reportedly shot in New Orleans, where an outreach strategy created opportunities for young locals, homeless people and senior citizens to join the cast and the crew. The producers of The Power of Few collaborated with associations like Volunteers of America and The Covenant House of New Orleans to hire local veterans and homeless people, young and old, to be part of their cast and crew.
- 1/14/2013
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
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