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NYC THEATRICAL PREMIERE RUN! Zachary Treitz's MEN GO TO BATTLE
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Zachary Treitz
MEN GO TO BATTLE
U.S., 2015, 98 min, digital. Written by Zachary Treitz & Kate Lyn Sheil. With Tim Morton, David Maloney, Rachel Korine, Kate Lyn Sheil, Steve Coulter, Emily McDonnell, and Morgan Raque. Distributed by Film Movement.
While most Americans predict that the Civil War will end by Christmas, Henry and Francis Mellon are more concerned about braving another winter on their struggling rural Kentucky farm. The brothers have become suffocatingly close. Francis's practical jokes have become more and more aggressive, culminating in his accidentally injuring Henry in a drunken fight. After humiliating himself with a daughter of the town's preeminent family, Henry disappears into the night. Only months later does Francis learn that Henry has joined the Union army, leaving the two brothers to experience the war separately and in radically different circumstances.
In the context of a contemporary American independent cinema thats too often focused on the travails of 21st century urban hipsters, MEN GO TO BATTLE is impressively ambitious in its period recreation (including some admirably resourceful Civil War battle sequences). Its two socially awkward, aimless protagonists are in a sense the ancestors of the archetype that populates much of todays independent cinema, but set against the backdrop of a cataclysmic conflict, their aimlessness takes on an unusual poignancy: Henry and Francis are two lost souls buffeted by the upheaval of a world they only dimly understand. A deeply melancholy but graceful film, MEN GO TO BATTLE is almost novelistic in its depiction of the branching fates of two brothers in wartime.
"Treitz persuasively and passionately re-creates a grand panorama on an intimate scale. [;...]; [;He]; captures rugged country life at a muscular level. The actors terse wit, chewy accents, and impulsive gestures suggest great physical force as well as equally great cultural constraints, ambient violence and a fear of God. The production designer, Jacob Heustis, is the films virtual co-author; the clothing and the furnishings have the aura of simple authenticity, which is reinforced by the cinematographer Brett Jutkiewiczs agile impressionism, illuminated by streaky sunlight, flickering bonfires, and dim lanterns." - Richard Brody, NEW YORKER
"At once a witty comedy about arrested development and a deeper rumination on individual experiences during wartime, MEN GO TO BATTLE is an effective period piece with a contemporary soul." - Eric Kohn, INDIEWIRE
SCREENING SCHEDULE:
Fri, July 8 through Thurs, July 14 at 6:45 & 9:15 nightly. Additional screenings on Sat & Sun at 4:30.
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LocationAnthology Film Archives (View)
32 2nd Avenue
New York, NY 10003
United States
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