PBS will air the documentary Rich Hill tonight, which highlights the lives of three boys living in a small Missouri town. This has been on my To See List for awhile. ...while there are many issues into which the film offers abundant insight, including poverty and the all but inescapable trap it becomes for many families, it is also about so many other things, including the rituals and rhythms of small-town life and the complexities of individual personalities. It emerges as an artistic statement as multi-faceted, nuanced and hauntingly original as any of its fictional counterparts...Rich Hill captures a sense of life in contemporary small towns that’s textured and evocative...This is especially true when it comes to community events like fairs and football games. And at the town’s annual Fourth of July celebrations, the thematic motif of luminescence in Palermo’s filming reaches a visual crescendo. It’s as if all the lights in the lives of this community unite in an outward explosion of joy, affirmation and hope.
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 17:20:53 +0000
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