GERRY (2002) (USA) (Gus Van Sant) (Language: English) (French .srt subtitle file available for download)
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"Gerry" is the first in Gus Van Sants informal "Death Trilogy". The second film in the trilogy is "Elephant" and the final film is "Last Days".
"Gerry" sketches a portrait of
a complicated friendship that looks back obliquely to the
bond between River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves in
"My Own Private Idaho".
GERRY serves as an extreme of Gus Van Sant's departure into slow-take cinema. Not surprisingly, as he showed a year later with his Palme D'Or winning "Elephant", he can settle into the minimalist mode of filmmaking better than almost any other director.
In "Gerry", he makes outstanding use of the stylistic tradition; as the film progresses, the audience, the integrity of which must be permitting, gradually gets sucked into its unique aesthetic rhythms. At 103 minutes, the film feels infinitely longer and more profound than one would expect. Unlike most films, Gus Van Sant's are demanding. They require us to slow our normal human functions until we are in a peaceful state of quietude, prepared to succumb to the film's simple pleasures, whether it be hypnotic audio or extensively long landscape takes. Particularly in "Gerry", it is quiet easy to be put into that meditative state by its heavy breathing, stomping footsteps, and deserted sublimity.
The plot involves two hapless twenty something hikers, Matt Damon and Casey Affleck, as they take a walk through the desert and end up hopelessly lost. In the first thirty minutes of the film we are introduced to the two characters, both named Gerry, as they rant mindlessly about random aspects of their lives, often times seemingly inside jokes. The characters most certainly present nothing close to philosophical musings, but rather create a disparate contrast between their innocence and the majestic, imposing landscape they inhabit.
Eventually, when we are right there emotionally with the two Gerrys, Van Sant begins to work his magic. Hypnotic long takes of time-lapsed skies and barren terrain give way to fluid tracking shots of two broken down shadowy figures as they trudge aimlessly (there is one shot that is so strikingly similar to a shot in "Werckmeister Harmonies" that it must be a homage, given Van Sant's reverence of Bela Tarr). The silent world that has become that of Gerry and Gerry is depicted so magnificently with the dedicated technique presented by Van Sant. The piercing piano lines that are added at opportune times take us to an extremely high emotional peak, and spike with the climactic ending of the film, one that is truly devastating. With Gerry, you will once again be astonished by Gus Van Sant. ~ Carson Lund
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FILM INFORMATION: 'Gerry'
Web: Additional Cast, Details and Bios at IMDb
Director: Gus Van Sant
Writers: Casey Affleck, Matt Damon & Gus Van Sant
Full Credits: Full Cast, Crew & Credits
Genre: Adventure | Drama
Awards: 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Runtime: 103 minutes
Spoken Language: English
Subtitles: French srt subtitle file available for download
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FILM CLIP: 'Gerry'
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January 28, 2010 at 6:58 PM
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