Published on Nov 25, 2011 by Euronews
http://www.euronews.net/ Take Shelter, written and directed by Jeff Nichols, stars Michael Shannon as a man plagued by a series of apocalyptic dreams about an encroaching storm.
He keeps the visions to himself but becomes obsessed with building a storm shelter to protect his wife Samantha (played by Jessica Chastain) and deaf six-year-old daughter Hannah (Tova Stewart).
A psychological thriller, Take Shelter was the only American movie in the Cannes Critics Week competition this year, where it won the Grand Prize.
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Trailer
He keeps the visions to himself but becomes obsessed with building a storm shelter to protect his wife Samantha (played by Jessica Chastain) and deaf six-year-old daughter Hannah (Tova Stewart).
A psychological thriller, Take Shelter was the only American movie in the Cannes Critics Week competition this year, where it won the Grand Prize.
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Trailer
Uploaded by CurzonCinemasLtd on Nov 23, 2011
Showing at Curzon Cinemas from Friday 25 November.
Curtis LaForche (Michael Shannon) is a working stiff in a small Ohio town, a crew chief for a sand-mining company. Money is tight, though Curtis finds solace in his supportive family, and devotion to his loving wife Samantha (Jessica Chastain) and their young daughter Hannah (Tova Stewart), who is deaf. There seems little remarkable about the man, yet he is in the shadow of a dark cloud and becomes increasingly plagued by apocalyptic apparitions. Haunted by his fears, his behaviour becomes erratic, and Curtis risks alienating the local community and stretching relationships with those closest to him beyond breaking point. Following Shotgun Stories from 2007, Jeff Nichols returns to the Festival with an extraordinary tale of ordinary madness that took two awards at Cannes this year, a deeply resonant vision that audaciously probes the psyche of modern America. Michael Shannon is emerging as one of the most significant screen actors working today, and his already considerable reputation is enhanced in this latest collaboration with Nichols. While his actions are often strange or questionable, Shannon's Curtis is a touching and vulnerable character, a thoroughly convincing everyman for our times.
Courtesy of Michael Hayden
http://www.curzoncinemas.com/films/details/962/take-shelter/
Curtis LaForche (Michael Shannon) is a working stiff in a small Ohio town, a crew chief for a sand-mining company. Money is tight, though Curtis finds solace in his supportive family, and devotion to his loving wife Samantha (Jessica Chastain) and their young daughter Hannah (Tova Stewart), who is deaf. There seems little remarkable about the man, yet he is in the shadow of a dark cloud and becomes increasingly plagued by apocalyptic apparitions. Haunted by his fears, his behaviour becomes erratic, and Curtis risks alienating the local community and stretching relationships with those closest to him beyond breaking point. Following Shotgun Stories from 2007, Jeff Nichols returns to the Festival with an extraordinary tale of ordinary madness that took two awards at Cannes this year, a deeply resonant vision that audaciously probes the psyche of modern America. Michael Shannon is emerging as one of the most significant screen actors working today, and his already considerable reputation is enhanced in this latest collaboration with Nichols. While his actions are often strange or questionable, Shannon's Curtis is a touching and vulnerable character, a thoroughly convincing everyman for our times.
Courtesy of Michael Hayden
http://www.curzoncinemas.com/films/details/962/take-shelter/
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