Kenner, who stands a little aloof his community, is fascinated - but he’s ill-equipped to deal with this kind of confession. Gray hesitantly confesses to having abused his daughter (Watson), but doesn’t recall doing so. (The film was part-shot in Canada.) In a scene which will later be replayed from a different perspective, down-at-heel local mechanic John Gray ( David Dencik) miserably turns himself in. The result is a film which can and will be enjoyed on at least two levels, and which reconfirms Amenabar’s transnational reputation as perhaps Spain’s predominant American indie director.īruce Kenner ( Hawke) is a cop, square of jaw and apparently straight-up of attitude, living in an invented small Minnesota town where the fields are expansive, the streets are slick with rain, and where an eerie half-light always seems to issue from the threatening, cloudy sky. Regression has plenty to say too, but but this time the ideas have been more carefully woven into the fibers of its twisting, neatly worked-out storyline. But Agora was clever-clever, and so became the kind of too-brainy film to be viewed with one eye on Wikipedia. Austin Stoker, Star of John Carpenter's 'Assault on Precinct 13,' Dies at 92Īmenabar is always clever.
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