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Writer:
Lodge Kerrigan (writer)
Release Date:
21 September 2005 (France)
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Plot:
A man in his early 30s (Keane) struggles with the supposed loss of his daughter from port authority bus terminal in New York...
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2 wins
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4 nominations
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Films You Should See: Keane
(From Tribeca Film. 28 January 2009, 4:29 AM, PST)
Golden year for Amy Ryan leads to 'Emerald'
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(From Tribeca Film. 28 January 2009, 4:29 AM, PST)
Golden year for Amy Ryan leads to 'Emerald'
(From ioncinema. 10 January 2008)
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Damian Lewis | ... | William Keane | |
| Abigail Breslin | ... | Kira Bedik | |
| Amy Ryan | ... | Lynn Bedik | |
| Liza Colón-Zayas | ... | 1st Ticket Agent | |
| John Tormey | ... | 2nd Ticket Agent | |
| Brenda Denmark | ... | Commuter | |
| Ed Wheeler | ... | 1st Bus Driver / Ticket Taker | |
| Christopher Evan Welch | ... | Motel Clerk | |
| Yvette Mercedes | ... | Woman in Department Store | |
| Chris Bauer | ... | Bartender | |
| Lev Gorn | ... | Drug Dealer | |
| Frank Wood | ... | Assaulted Commuter | |
| Alexander Robert Scott | ... | 1st Cab Driver | |
| Phil McGlaston | ... | 2nd Cab Driver | |
| Tina Holmes | ... | Michelle |
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Untitled Lodge Kerrigan Project (USA) (working title)
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Rated R for a scene of strong sexuality, drug use and language.
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USA:100 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) |
Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) |
Australia:MA |
Netherlands:12 |
USA:R
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Shot in 32 days for less than $1 million.
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William Keane:
My Name is William Keane, K E A N E.
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Featured in 2006 Independent Spirit Awards (2006) (TV)
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Only quite rarely does a film have the quality of an event really taking place. You get that feeling when you are watching 'Keane.' Most filmmakers, even the most gifted, don't seem to have the uncompromising devotion to create a realistic world in their films. Inevitably, the temptation to show their stylistic talent is what dooms well-intentioned 'verite' directors to water down their works with artifice. The only other film, in recent years, that also succeeded in recreating the real world, was 'Rosetta,' a French film that won the Palme D'Or a few years back.
And the reality that Lodge Kerrigan and the actor, Damian Lewis, create in 'Keane' is one that is particularly difficult to create - it is a reality of a person on the edge of sanity, a reality that few people who are sane enough (if anyone can be considered sane in this business)to get a film made would ever have experienced. Unfortunately, I can understand the isolation, paranoia and desperation that William Keane expresses in this movie. And it expressed with an alarming verisimilitude.
Despite my first comment that 'Keane' is a film without artifice, there are elements to the structure and editing that show the director/writer had made extremely subtle uses of film technique to compress, heighten and intensify William Keane's psychological character.
Finally, I must add that this film is an emotionally rewarding experience, providing a denouement that is cleansing and healing - a 'happy ending' that smacks of real life, not the strange and manipulative world of formula film making. When I left the theater, I felt stronger, purged, for a while at least, of the private terrors that always lurk beneath the surface.