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Ido Mizrahy’s first film, Things That Hang From Trees, is a meditative, rigorous, moving character study set in a dead-end Florida town at the end of the ‘60s. Tarkovsky might influence the thinking of a generation of directors, or two. But you seldom see that influence so well-digested and understood in a twenty-four year old indie director...
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...The movie portrays the life of an eight-year-old boy in Florida, in 1969. He lives with his mother, who owns a lingerie store; she models in the store’s front window. He is harassed by a bully and also by his father, a drifter. He is nearly mute in the face of his suffering, and only after a tragedy finds shelter...
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Maurice Sendak is the author of Where the Wild Things Are. © Copyright 1963 & 1991 by Maurice Sendak |
This is the story of a child who, essentially, must decide to live on his own or, more hopefully, collect a disparate family; people in town who will act as surrogate parents. Of course there is no possibility for a child "to live on his own" so he must invent a family. Our hero, happily, is capable of such an imaginative and desperate leap. He conjures the family and makes it work. It is a story of every child's desperate need to be loved and cared for and it is simply a matter of chance and strength of spirit which will allow this to happen or not. I see happiness for this child though it will be an original and awkward happiness. But his need to survive is as powerful as any animal or creature on the face of the earth. Despite the various handicaps, the boy is full of imagination and dreams of "making it."'
— Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are
"A superb work…filled with characters that touch your heart and grate your nerves."
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