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The action, such as it is, moves at its own slow Southern pace, following a group of youngsters, black and white, over a few high-summer days. Things do happen--a couple decide to elope, one boy’s saved from drowning, another gets killed--but they’re presented in an oblique, understated fashion that owes nothing to conventional Hollywood notions of narrative. With one exception, the cast are all non-professionals, mainly youngsters who director-writer David Gordon Green found in and around the town where the film was made, Winston-Salem in North Carolina. Shooting in a semi-improvised fashion, Green draws from his young cast remarkably spontaneous performances and dialogue (often their own) full of unselfconscious poetry.
Drawing on a wide range of influences--among other things he cites Sesame Street, documentaries and such 70s classics as Deliverance, Walkabout and especially Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven--Green has fashioned a film that’s fresh, tender and utterly individual. And it looks just gorgeous: belying the tiny budget, Tim Orr’s widescreen photography lavishes mellow softness on images of dereliction and small-town decay. Never has dead-end poverty been made to look so attractive.
On the DVD: George Washington comes on a disc generously loaded with extras. Besides the obvious theatrical trailer we get two of Green’s early short films, Physical Pinball and Pleasant Grove (both clearly dry runs for the main feature), an 18-minute featurette about the film’s reception at the Berlin Film Fest and a deleted scene of a community meeting. This scene, the short Pleasant Grove and the movie itself also offer a director’s commentary--or rather a director’s dialogue, as Green shares the honours with one of his lead actors, Paul Schneider. Their laconic, unpretentious comments enhance the whole experience enormously. The film has been transferred in its full scope ratio (2.35:1) and looks great. --Philip Kemp
Special Features
English
Region 2
Directors Commentary
Deleted Scene
Two Short Films
Documentary At Berlin Film Festival
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They decide to hide Buddys' body and he is found later when George has tenderly washed him in the river and left him to be found.
We see their hopes for the future and their dissappointments , for some their desire to escape from the town. In this film the local young men who are repairing the railroad engine are just as aimless as the children, but are shown to be a friendly and supportive influence .
It's beautifully filmed, evocative of childhood concerns and natural acting from the cast. You,ll be thinking about it a long time after.
So what's the problem? Well the aspect ratio is supposed to be 2.35:1 which is fine but what they appear to have done here is not have bands along the top and bottom but also the sides as well! So a very small image centered in the middle of the screen. Also if you put it in your pc it tries to install software which I never find endearing
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