Ballast (2008)
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1153690/]
The Gist:
Ballast is a film that has been dubiously dubbed by A.O. Scott as part of an American "Neo-Neo Realist" movement. The entire film is shot hand-held (unless there's some tricky tripod shot hiding in there for like five seconds, which I doubt), and the editing is sporadic, lively, organic. The film was directing, produced, written, and edited by Lance Hammer who has never made a feature film before in his life. He shot in the Mississippi Delta with nonactors that were native to the area. And yeah, the list goes on like that. Let me just say that the film is amazing, that it trembles with life, and be done with it.
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