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Jan 5, 2018 · Nick (Alex Pettyfer) and Sam (James Freedson-Jackson) take aim in The Strange Ones . Vertical Entertainment/DirecTV. This low-budget enigma of a film, which follows two brothers (or, at least,...
Jan 5, 2018 · This is a primordial story filled with dreamlike symbols from humanity's past—roads, forests, caves, clouds, the sun—and its characters move through it in the manner of a mid-century American short story, the kind where you're not sure how literally you're supposed to take anything.
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As the title suggests, it’s very strange. From the filmmaking team of Christopher Radcliff and Lauren Wolkstein, The Strange Ones is a puzzle of a film. You can solve it – either immediately or gradually. But you get the sense, sometimes, that every aspect of it is designed not to fit together quite right. It’s dreamlike in its construction and pre...
Sam (James Freedson-Jackson) has somehow ended up in the passenger seat of a car driven by Nick (Alex Pettyfer). That much, at least, you can figure out for yourself. Sam’s a teenager; slack-jawed not with awe or idiocy, but a kind of meanness – an anger, a frustration. Nick’s a rugged twenty-something; handsome and charismatic, but vaguely siniste...
The story is told nonlinearly, but the through-line is clear enough. It’s just that everything seems slightly off-kilter. From the start, it’s clear that the leads, who present themselves as brothers, have an uneasy, unnatural relationship. The environment they navigate is familiar, but eerily depopulated. Beautiful, too, in the way that dying thin...
It’s difficult to say. I admire a lot of what it attempts to accomplish, even if it isn’t entirely successful. I certainly felt something while watching it – a chill that settled across my shoulders and the back of my neck; a stirring that wound up into my stomach and coiled there like a reptile. I don’t know if that’s to the film’s credit or its d...
Less noteworthy, but then again the film asks less of them. Emily Althaus, from Orange is the New Black, plays a motel manager. Gene Jones plays an older man who runs a work camp for delinquent boys. The leads – again, particularly Freedson-Jackson – have an easy rapport with them. There’s probably a film to be made about every combination. That’s ...
Unsettling and unusual, but predictable and thin, The Strange Ones is worth watching mostly because it suggests the possibility of a fine filmmaking career. But it lingers, too, for whatever reason. It runs less than 90 minutes; as lean as a feature film gets. I hope the next one is longer.
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The Strange Ones is based on a 2011 short film of the same name co-directed by Wolkstein and Radcliffe. The short centers on a man and young boy who arouse suspicion from others at a roadside motel. It features David Call , Tobias Campbell (who appears in the full-length film), and Merritt Wever .
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Jan 4, 2018 · ‘The Strange Ones’ Review: A Masterful and Unforgettable Tale of Innocence Lost Lauren Wolsktein and Christopher Radcliff’s haunting tone poem goes places few...
Jan 4, 2018 · In the incident common to both stories, a barely adolescent boy and an alternately gruff and solicitous man, probably in his twenties, leave their broken-down car by the side of a rural road and stumble on a lonely motel. The lad strips off his shirt and jumps in the pool, while his grown companion tells the motel’s female manager that they ...
Jan 4, 2018 · Movies. Review: ‘The Strange Ones’ is an odyssey and a mystery. By Katie Walsh. Jan. 4, 2018 10 AM PT. “The Strange Ones” is a mysterious puzzle box of a film, anchored by a...
