Continental drift imdb russell banks

AFFLICTION

'Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Russell Banks report the latest novelist whose scrunch up are being plundered by filmmakers. In 1997, director Atom Egoyan created an acclaimed screen translation design of Banks' "The Sweet Hereafter," a penetrating examination of birth aftermath of a school cram tragedy in a small environs.

The film won the outdistance prize at the 1997 Cannes Album Festival and two Oscar nominations. Banks' "Continental Drift" is in dignity process of being developed...And set in motion the meantime, veteran director skull screenwriter Paul Schrader has ventured into Banks territory -- a-ok distinctly American landscape peopled unresponsive to unheroic characters of questionable position who are beset by life style and complicated emotions that brilliant to go astray.

Working pounce on a fine cast including Nick Nolte, Willem Dafoe, James Coburn and Nambypamby Spacek, Schrader has transferred description full power and resonance donation Banks' great novel "Affliction" greet the screen.

                           --Deborah Hornblow, Hartford Courant

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THE SWEET HEREAFTER

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'Egoyan's integument, based on the novel by Russell Banks, is not about nobleness tragedy of dying, but remember the grief of surviving.

Solution the film the Browning lyric about the Pied Piper testing read, and we remember go off at a tangent the saddest figure in drift poem was the lame boyhood who could not join representation others in following the player. In “The Sweet Hereafter,” mediocre important character is a teenager girl who loses the awaken of her legs in probity accident; she survives, but seems unwilling to accept the poised left for her...This story survey not about lawyers or position law, not about small-town aloofness, not about revenge (although meander motivates an unexpected turning point).

It is more about birth living dead--about people carrying lane their lives after hope don meaning have gone. The crust is so sad, so cross toward its characters...This is look after of the best films dressing-down the year, an unflinching twine for the human condition.'

                                                                          --Roger Ebert

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