As you might know, it’s been a hard couple of months for the specialty market in the film world. Certain arthouse features haven’t had the impact that some might have hoped, and a lot of long-running theaters are depending on their repertoire programs in order to keep folks flowing through the door and headed to the concession stand. Michel Franco’s Sundown, a beautiful and melancholic drama featuring an excellent and fascinating performance from Tim Roth, might not be the film to bring them back in full force, but one can always hope. Bleecker Street’s trying their best anyway, and they dropped a brand-new trailer for the film earlier on Tuesday. Give this one a view, why don’t you? It’s not like it’s going to rot your eyeballs or anything.
Take a look:
Here’s a very short synopsis, which doesn’t tell you too much about the movie. If you’d like to know more, go ahead and check out our review of it from TIFF last September, but don’t let that stop you from reading the next… two sentences?
“Neil and Alice Bennett (Tim Roth, Charlotte Gainsbourg) are the core of a wealthy family on vacation in Mexico with younger members Colin and Alexa (Samuel Bottomley, Albertine Kotting McMillan) until a distant emergency cuts their trip short. When one relative disrupts the family’s tight-knit order, simmering tensions rise to the fore in this suspenseful jolt from writer/director Michel Franco.”
Sundown hits select theaters on January 28, which is significantly less crowded now that Morbius has fled its date for around Easter (we would have made a joke post about that, but it’s just too depressing at this point). Why not go back and watch Francis Ford Coppola’s Youth Without Youth before this one hits? Later Coppola is super underrated — Twixt is a banger. Well, maybe not Jack. That one kind of deserves its reputation, but don’t let it cloud your vision.