This very beautiful & excellently acted movie,has suffered the same fate of similar type films. If a movie has no big name actors, nor is it an action ,adventure movie,it is hardly released on cine-plex screens.
LOCAL COLOR was made in 2005,it ad a one screen run in 2007, & in August 2009 had a 2 screen run,thusly it generated a miserly $ 50,000 gross, Total cost was about $ 3.25 million.
This is a very leisurely BUT not slow film was written & directed by George Gallo & is a semi-fictionalized version of one summer in his own life when he was a late teen. He had dreams of being a landscape painter & much of the film is done in beautiful landscapes. The director puts his own vision into each scene & the result is very beautiful.
What really makes the movie stand-out is the superb acting & settings.
The young lad is played by Trevor Morgan, an up and coming actor. Armin Mueller-Stahl is the older painter who mentors our lad, He of course commands every one of his scenes,he is one of those actors known for this. The scenes between the two of them have have a quiet intensity,that is excellent.
In worthy support are some of the better actors available. Samantha Mathis, Ray Liotta, Diana Scawid, Ron Perlmann & Charles Durning, They all are excellent.
This film is now on DVD & for those who like adult dramas about human relationships I highly recommend it.
The film has an R rating due to certain words our main character uses.It does come over OK though as it fits his character to a T.
Ratings: ***1/2 (out of 4) 95 points (out of 100) 9 (out of 10)
LOCAL COLOR was made in 2005,it ad a one screen run in 2007, & in August 2009 had a 2 screen run,thusly it generated a miserly $ 50,000 gross, Total cost was about $ 3.25 million.
This is a very leisurely BUT not slow film was written & directed by George Gallo & is a semi-fictionalized version of one summer in his own life when he was a late teen. He had dreams of being a landscape painter & much of the film is done in beautiful landscapes. The director puts his own vision into each scene & the result is very beautiful.
What really makes the movie stand-out is the superb acting & settings.
The young lad is played by Trevor Morgan, an up and coming actor. Armin Mueller-Stahl is the older painter who mentors our lad, He of course commands every one of his scenes,he is one of those actors known for this. The scenes between the two of them have have a quiet intensity,that is excellent.
In worthy support are some of the better actors available. Samantha Mathis, Ray Liotta, Diana Scawid, Ron Perlmann & Charles Durning, They all are excellent.
This film is now on DVD & for those who like adult dramas about human relationships I highly recommend it.
The film has an R rating due to certain words our main character uses.It does come over OK though as it fits his character to a T.
Ratings: ***1/2 (out of 4) 95 points (out of 100) 9 (out of 10)