Review of Keane (2004) by Ed Fucking H — 27 Apr 2011
A really good, low-key. gritty and realistic portrait of a schizophrenic man attempting to locate his aducted daughter. The film follows William Keane, played excellently by Damian Lewis, through various bars, hotel rooms and bathrooms.
He drinks lotsa beers, snorts coke, gets into fights and has casual sexual encounters along the way, until he meets a a women and her daughter and decides to help them pay for their hotel room. A relationship builds between these three characters and we begin to question the reality of Keanes daughter.
The performances are really good all around and the tone is gritty and always believable. The pace is very slow and as such will not appeal to all audiences, but if you want to see something that is downbeat and realistic you could do alot worse.
Recommended.
This review of Keane (2004) was written by Ed Fucking H on 27 Apr 2011.
Keane has generally received positive reviews.
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