Keane
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Actor: Abigail Breslin, Amy Ryan, Damian Lewis, John Tormey, Liza Colón-ZayasBrand: MAGNOLIA FILMS
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-03-21
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Model: 10007
Studio: Magnolia Home Entertainment
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- A man in his early 30s (keane) struggles with the supposed loss of his daughter from port authority bus terminal in new york, while fighting serious battles with schizophrenia. we can never be sure if the loss is real or imaginary; or whether his overt interest in helping young girls is innocent and of a fatherly nature, or is of a darker, scarier motive. the film is about a search for family, bel
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Movie Review: Naked. Grueling. Brilliant.
Summary: 5 Stars
For almost half an hour, we sit on William Keane's shoulder. He haunts a New York bus station carrying the newspaper photo of a girl he claims is his daughter. He shoves it the faces of strangers. He mutters that he has to board a bus. He does, but once on, he sees something outside and demands the bus stop. He searches a row of semi-trucks and finds a purple coat. It's not hers. He bolts out into the middle of road, screaming for his daughter. He sleeps in the rain next to the Jersey Turnpike. The camera is as close as it can be to the man, but it has no idea what he'll do next.
Lodge Kerrigan's "Keane" is a focused character study that shifts, subtly but truly, into a high-wire last act, as the title character, played by Damien Lewis, has to subdue his schizophrenia to take care of a little girl named Kira (Abigal Breslin). It's merely one night and a day, but based on what we've seen of William, it'll be a minor miracle if he doesn't lose or kill the girl. He is not merely grief-ridden. He's addicted to cocaine and sex. He claims (to himself) to be divorced - at one point he calls someone who does not want to speak to him - and he uses his disability check to pay for his hostel studio. He imagines his daughter's kidnapper returning to the bus stop in the middle of the night. He beats a stranger.
We know who Keane is by what he does, and what he says, to himself, cannot be separated from his actions - thought resides so far outside whatever has grabs this man's soul and gnaws it to the bone in those delusional moments. So when he meets his neighbor, Lynn (Amy Ryan) and her daughter Kira, and gives them money and not expecting anything in return, we're surprised at his composure and sense. But then he's standing outside Lynn's restaurant, watching her. And then Lynn asks William to watch Kira for a couple hours. And then a few more.
Lewis is naked, brilliant. This is not acting but immersion, a performance unbelievable not because it seems like acting but because genuine insanity, until presents itself, seems mythic. Well, here it is. William's meager-yet-functional subsistence is shattered by varying degrees of mania; at his worst, he is trapped in a spy game with the imagined kidnapper. Lewis balances these freakouts with a personality who knows to wear a collar when he comes over for dinner, and how to wash a young girl's hair. The performance operates in a narrow gap between sympathy and disgust, not unlike Nicolas Cage in "Leaving Las Vegas." Before a crucial decision William narrates the facts of his life: The day he was born, the woman he married, the girl he fathered. It is impossible to know whether any of it is true.
Director Kerrigan's choice to jam the camera in William's face for much of "Keane" makes for a demanding, involving experience - this is how a manic lives. Shot from a medium or long distance, it would be easier to judge the character, but here we are moored to him. Contrast that with the recent "Proof," where Gwyneth Paltrow, suffering similar episodes, merely comes off as a whiny waif.
Kerrigan only develops two other characters, Lynn and Kira. He and the young Breslin do a particularly good depicting the quiet, sweet Kira, blissfully unaware of the danger William could pose. She develops a love for Keane, as little girls will, and the final scenes, in their own way, are white-knucklers, not so much for the girl but Keane, who insists on putting himself, and the girl, through a trial that mirrors the day he thinks he lost his daughter. Our expectation in these moments work counter our hopes, generating a sadness to accompany the tension. Real life is scarier when it seems beyond control. "Keane" puts us in that spot, and gains our admiration for its risks.
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