Writer director Gordon Green has fashioned a liesurely paced, poetic collage of scenes from a summer of youthful innocence, forced into a world of maturity.
Green and his cinematographer, Tim Orr, truly create a silk purse from a sow's ear: an ordinary industrial landscape, a weed-infested railroad track, and even a trash heap can all take on a look of beauty and grace.
As our young characters come to grips with their growing maturity, so their surroundings seem to reach out to embrace them and cushion the blows of reality.
For these ears, much of the regional dialogue could have benefitted from subtitles; however, story is not the essential thing here. Rather mood, atmosphere, and feeling is the focus.
Seeing "George Washington" on the big screen in a fine print was a pleasure for the eyes. Beauty can indeed be found in seemingly ordinary settings, when one has the ability to make the discovery. Green, Orr and their company certainly did in this contemplative, poetic rendering.
Green and his cinematographer, Tim Orr, truly create a silk purse from a sow's ear: an ordinary industrial landscape, a weed-infested railroad track, and even a trash heap can all take on a look of beauty and grace.
As our young characters come to grips with their growing maturity, so their surroundings seem to reach out to embrace them and cushion the blows of reality.
For these ears, much of the regional dialogue could have benefitted from subtitles; however, story is not the essential thing here. Rather mood, atmosphere, and feeling is the focus.
Seeing "George Washington" on the big screen in a fine print was a pleasure for the eyes. Beauty can indeed be found in seemingly ordinary settings, when one has the ability to make the discovery. Green, Orr and their company certainly did in this contemplative, poetic rendering.