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‘Color Book’ Review: A Newly Widowed Dad and His Son With a Disability Rebuild in Moving Indie Debut
Mourning makes for a memorable, hushed journey across Atlanta as a dad attempts to take his son to the ball game in David Fortune’s impressive debut.
He slides into a precise yet gentle groove in telling the story of Lucky (William Catlett) and his 11-year-old son Mason (Jeremiah Daniels) as they begin navigating a space rearranged by an unexpected, upending death. “Color Book” delivers lo-fi pleasures (cueing Roy Ayers’s “Everybody Loves the Sunshine,” for instance) and struts high-fidelity clarity (cinematographer Nikolaus Summerer’s crisp palette of inky charcoals, soft grays and luminous whites). And Lucky and Mason’s public transit journey to the ballpark provides views of a far-flung metropolis, with its mix of light industrial pauses between modest or worn neighborhoods, low-slung apartment buildings and storefronts.
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