Here’s a welcome breath of fresh air amid the oppressive mechanics of Oscar season. Some of you might remember that my personal Top 10 of 2010 featured a few films only hitting US theaters this year — and here’s the first of them. Aaron Katz’s “Cold Weather,” a bracing fusion of gentle indie shuffle and playful noir leanings, opens on Friday, and I implore you to take a chance on it. Apple has a shiny new trailer that does a neat job of reflecting the film’s brittle atmospheric charms, if not its cockeyed humor. (It also offers a taste of the year’s most strikingly original score.) Check it out by clicking on the image, or watch the embed after the cut.
From my October review:
Aaron Katz’s third feature “Cold Weather” disarmingly continues the shuffling sense of 20-something statelessness examined in his earlier films “Dance Party, USA” and “Quiet City,” but makes some adventurous conceptual tweaks to the formula… Some critics have backhandedly praised the film as “mumblecore with a plot,” but Katz has long been a more cinematic stylist and storyteller than many of the dialogue-smitten young auteurs who get branded with the “m”-word — like “Quiet City,” “Cold Weather” is a miniature triumph of atmospherics and visual composition, with Andrew Reed’s crisp, minty cinematography equating the fug of working-class Portland with the fog of Conan Doyle’s London.
You can also check out my interview with Katz here.
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4 responses to “‘Cold Weather’ trailer”
Interesting…I was worried that this was going to be another “precious serio-comic indie,” but really became intriguing in the second half. I’ll keep an eye out for it.
The trailer is a bit misleading, isn’t it? I mean, it’s certainly more light-hearted than it leads on. Nonetheless, I enjoyed the film immensely.
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This is on IFC On Demand starting Feb 9th i believe, cant wait to check it out…