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The Best and Meh-st of a Dud Year at Sundance
This year’s festival felt like the last days of a going-out-of-business sale. Still, a few gems emerged in the slush.
At the same time, it’s hard for me to deem truly “bad” any Sundance that gave us such wonderful films as Peter Hujar’s Day, Train Dreams, Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake), The Ugly Stepsister, The Things You Kill, and Rebuilding. Byrne plays Linda, a therapist and mother caring for a sick daughter (who goes unseen but heard in the film) amid a number of other stressors big and small: There’s a hole in the apartment ceiling, her husband is away on business for two months, one of her patients is melting down, and so on. The best films I saw this year were from somewhat veteran filmmakers: the aforementioned Bronstein, Train Dreams, Cherien Dabis’s All That’s Left of You, James Sweeney’s Twinless, and Ira Sachs’s Peter Hujar’s Day.
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