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

Lachlan MacAldonich is a self-described “lazy Scotsman” and former guitar player for a once-popular 1990s rock band. No longer famous, he now lives a comfortably numb existence working on an organic farm outside Los Angeles. He drinks himself into a stupor every night and retires to his shabby apartment to record his podcast, recounting the tragic deaths of great musicians. After a particularly heavy night of drowning his sorrows at a local watering hole, he is arrested for driving under the influence. This snag, coupled with a long-ago conviction for a drug offense, means Lachlan faces possible deportation. His only hope of remaining stateside is proving that his absence would cause extreme hardship for a spouse or relative—forcing him to confront relationships he thought were buried forever.

Robert Carlyle injects equal amounts of washed-up rock star and winsome charm into the lead role of a lovable loser struggling with personal demons and an intractable legal system. In his eagerly awaited follow-up to 2007’s Blue State, writer/director Marshall Lewy paints an intimate portrait of human fallibility and the ever-present possibility of making things right, even from the darkest depths. - A.M.

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Marshall Lewy’s first feature film, Blue State, starring Anna Paquin and Breckin Meyer, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was released by MGM. He is currently adapting the best-selling book Born to Run, to be directed by Peter Sarsgaard, and he recently wrote a screenplay about the Cuban American political exile Santiago Morales. Marshall received his BA from Harvard and his MFA in directing from Columbia University. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, dog, and newly born daughter.