Between the various crazies populating Alexander Payne’s black-and-white “Nebraska” and the three women driven mad by the endlessly flat prairie in Tommy Lee Jones’ “The Homesman,” the Cornhusker State is assuming quasi-mythic proportions these days. The trend continues with Dave Jannetta’s “Love & Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere,” an entertaining, decidedly offbeat documentary that weaves an eclectic web of assorted digressions around the mysterious death of a theoretical math professor in the small Nebraska town of Chadron. Putting the tragicomic icing on the Midwestern cake, the film could catch on nicely in niche play.
The image of the town and its inhabitants that emerges from the doc — based on the book of the same name by Poe Ballantine, who serves as the film’s resident narrator/guide under his real name, Ed Hughes — skews broadly toward the bizarre. The meandering narrative is punctured by audio excerpts from...
The image of the town and its inhabitants that emerges from the doc — based on the book of the same name by Poe Ballantine, who serves as the film’s resident narrator/guide under his real name, Ed Hughes — skews broadly toward the bizarre. The meandering narrative is punctured by audio excerpts from...
- 12/3/2014
- by Ronnie Scheib
- Variety - Film News
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