Not exact matches
Nichols has made a career
out of penning and directing intelligent, effective
human dramas, from his 2007 debut Shotgun Stories through 2011's psychological masterpiece Take Shelter (also starring Shannon) and 2012's
Mud, which featured a stunning turn from Matthew McConaughey.
The opening image asks us conflate physical futility
of the enterprise — the hole fills with
mud as soon as the men scoop it
out — with the moral futility
of sorting souls the way the Jim Crow South sorted
human beings.
A video projection showed a performance in which this creature «came to life» — with a
human underneath the caked
mud — and walked
out of a gallery, into the streets.