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Event Date as Display String:

Friday, March 6, 2020, 7:00pm - 8:15pm

Location:

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

URL:

https://harvardfilmarchive.org/calendar/river-of-grass-2020-03

Event Description:

Gazette Classification: Film Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Film
Archive Cost: $10 - Regular Admission $8 - Non-Harvard Students,
Harvard Faculty and Staff, and Senior Citizens. Free for Harvard
students Contact Info: bgravely@fas.harvard.edu Link:
https://harvardfilmarchive.org/calendar/river-of-grass-2020-03
Reichardt's directorial debut reveals the ramshackle humor too often
overlooked in her films. Indeed, with its deadpan comic pacing and
playful embrace of popular genre — here, the lovers-on-the-run film —
"River of Grass" places Reichardt somewhere on the same gnarled family
tree of insightfully irreverent Americana as Barbara Loden, Jim
Jarmusch and Sam Shepard. An autobiographically informed snapshot of
her native Florida, "River of Grass" makes clear the gently offbeat
humanism central to Reichardt's cinema as it studies the strange bond
accidently joining two deluded and strong-willed characters: a
dispirited suburban mother and a restless man-child played by cult
filmmaker and occasional actor (as well as the film's producer) Larry
Fessenden. The discovery of a pistol lost by an absent-minded police
detective gives way to an unlikely, partially imagined adventure, as
the couple spontaneously escapes into what they believe will be a
runaway crime spree but which turns into something else. The fact that
Fessenden's character does not wear shoes nor understand how to even
use a gun signals they are probably not going very far. Recently
restored and rediscovered, "River of Grass" is acknowledged today as a
classic of Nineties American independent cinema.

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Friday, March 6, 2020 - 19:00 to 20:15

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