Look Again. Jan 19 – 29, 2012 Park City, Utah

After an overnight long-distance drive, Joby (Paul Dano) has a special meeting—with lawyers and his ex-wife. A struggling musician with the prerequisite tattoos, slimy hair, goatee, and his head firmly floating in the clouds, Joby hasn’t been around to be a dad. Now is his last chance to fight for shared custody of his daughter, Ellen.

Writer/director So Yong Kim takes this traditional situation and fills it with humanism. Joby becomes a fascinating character study—a wannabe rock star now turned into a human being—forced to care about something other than his dreams. Kim’s subtle filmmaking style captures real life and conveys emotion in both funny and touching ways. Dano takes a character we are used to laughing at and makes him genuine, completely immersing us in Joby’s journey to respectability, even though he may not make it there.
- M.P.

Jen Gatien
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For Ellen is So Yong Kim’s third feature film as a director. Her critically acclaimed second feature, Treeless Mountain, was released by Oscilloscope Laboratories in 2009. Kim’s first feature, In Between Days, won a Special Jury Prize at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and was released by Kino International. Kim has also produced three films directed by Bradley Rust Gray: Salt (2003), The Exploding Girl (2009), and Jack and Diane (2012).

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