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Galveston
Actor/director Melanie Laurent makes her English-language directing debut with Galveston, a seedy but sincere and strikingly attractive picture adapted from the novel by Nic Pizzolatto. Starring Ben Foster and Elle Fanning as strangers running together from their crimes and the powerful man (Beau Bridges) who profited from them, the 1980s-set story uses terminal illness as a catalyst, if not the ultimate cause, for redemption. Though less bracing than the pedigree of True Detective creator Pizzolatto might suggest, the strength of its direction and performances should attract applause on the fest circuit.
Foster is Roy, a New Orleans ex-con who works as an enforcer for Stan (Bridges), but whose situation has gotten delicate since Stan started sleeping with a woman he once knew. Stan sends Roy on an assignment meant to go wrong, and when the gunpowder settles, the only ones standing are Roy and Fanning’s Raquel, a call girl who was an unwitting pawn in the setup. Assuming she was not meant to survive, Roy brings her with him as he flees town, grabbing his gun and some valuable-looking documents on his way out.
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Director: Mélanie Laurent
Actors: Adepero Oduye, Beau Bridges, Ben Foster, Elle Fanning, Lili Reinhart, María Valverde, Robert Aramayo
Country: USA
