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October 05, 2005
Keane (2005) *** 1/2
Lodge Kerrigan works with breathtaking intimacy and ragged intensity, even when the cool lines of bits of Manhattan backdrop the closed-off life of a prostitute in the icy Katrin Cartlidge-starring Claire Dolan (1998); his debut, Clean, Shaven, (1994) is probably the greatest film that I can think of that I have no desire ever to see even a frame from again, a portrayal of schizophrenia, acted with jagged deliquescence by Peter Greene, who had his own reported difficulties with addiction. Kerrigan’s extraordinary filmography includes the Peter Sarsgaard-starring In God’s Hands, which, like Keane, was executive-produced by Steven Soderbergh, but its negative was destroyed in a lab accident. William Keane (Damian Lewis) is an exhausted-looking ginger-haired man we first encounter inside the Port Authority terminal at 42nd and Sixty Avenue in New York, the camera is close, perched near his shoulder, close to his stubbled face and wide blue eyes. His six-year-old daughter disappeared there months earlier. Now he stalks the streets, muttering, drinking, taking drugs, muttering some more. Of course, you have to ask, did the girl ever exist? He meets a young woman, Lynn (Amy Ryan) who lives in the SRO where he’s staying, who entrusts him to pick up her daughter, Kira (Abigail Breslin, who is heartbreaking, even wondrous). Can he find redemption? John Foster’s camerawork is humane yet relentless; the actors are vulnerable as a best friend who’s suffering, and as in the three Kerrigan features that exist, the mind is a devastating battlefield. 93m.
Posted by pride at October 5, 2005 06:14 PM
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