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Forty Shades of Blue (2005)
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7 December 2005 (France)
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A Russian woman living in Memphis with a much older rock-n-roll legend experiences a personal awakening when her husband's estranged son comes to visit. full summary | add synopsis
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Samuel Goldwyn Warms up to 'Cold Souls'
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12 selected for Sundance Institute's 2007 Screenwriters Lab
(From ioncinema. 15 December 2006)
(From ioncinema. 31 January 2009)
12 selected for Sundance Institute's 2007 Screenwriters Lab
(From ioncinema. 15 December 2006)
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Dina Korzun | ... | Laura |
 | Rip Torn | ... | Alan James |
 | Darren E. Burrows | ... | Michael James (as Darren Burrows) |
 | Andrew Henderson | ... | Sam James |
 | Liz Morton | ... | Cindy, Babysitter |
 | Joanne Pankow | ... | Aunt Betty |
| Arielle Kight | ... | Teenage Singer |
| J. Blackfoot | ... | Herself |
| Red West | ... | Duigan |
 | Jenny O'Hara | ... | Celia |
| Jerry Chipman | ... | Shel |
 | Mary Jean McAdams | ... | Gena |
| Charly Kayle | ... | Karin |
| J. Allen Scott | ... | Press Photographer |
| Earl Randle | ... | Old Timer |
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Rated R for sexuality and language.
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USA:108 min
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Featured in 2006 Independent Spirit Awards (2006) (TV)
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Film-making with such an eye for detail and nuance is rarely to be seen in America and I'm overjoyed that the Sundance committee stepped forward to recognize it. Forty Shades of Blue is a fascinated witness to heartbreak and refuses all melodrama, all sentimentality in favor of fully lived characters that are shocking in their naturalism---the Russian actress in particular is astonishing but what is even more astonishing is the subtlety with which the director observes her. It is the most careful portrait of loneliness I have ever seen.
Unlike most directors who point us in every frame at their star or their theme, Sachs--like Robert Altman--often points out details and people of the setting (Memphis) so that we are quite sure we're not seeing actors at all, and the effect is not the closed-room feel you would expect of a love triangle, but a place and time fixed forever by the lens. Ira Sachs has coaxed great performances from his actors, his hometown and the musicians who perform like a Greek chorus throughout. It's quite a masterpiece.