In 1930s America, a couple of gangster brothers (both Michael B. Jordan) try to escape their dodgy dealings by coming home to the Mississippi delta and opening a juke joint. Unfortunately as they open for business they realise that a greater evil lies in the shadows right on their doorstep.
Took my 3-year-old nephew to a special adult and toddler screening of this at the cinema. Barely a peep was heard throughout the film which either means it really spoke to them, or they all fell asleep.
A behind-the-scenes documentary about a man in Wisconsin who is trying to make a movie. He gets all his friends and family involved, borrows large amounts of cash to fund it, and it becomes his whole life for three years.
To call this a ‘companion piece’ to The Act of Killing is to undersell it a little, but it does follow on from that film and builds on the themes of the first - namely the brutal killing of around a million people in mid-1960s Indonesia, and the reluctance of anyone involved to talk about it.
I think we might as well just watch all three of these now.