This year I have seen three hands down great crime films, and none of them have been ‘mainstream’ movies. Two have been foreign, while the third is an indie that’s only playing in a handful of theaters right now. Winter’s Bone is a great Ozark noir that you must catch if it’s playing near you, while A Prophet might be the best crime film since Goodfellas (seriously), and it’s coming to home video this August. The other crime film is Animal Kingdom, an Australian family crime epic that hits our theaters at the end of the summer.
The movie is scorching, something that the new poster, which debuted at HitFix, doesn’t quite get across. I should have a review soon to coincide with the film’s appearance at the Los Angeles Film Festival; in the meantime head over to HitFix to see the rest of the poster, and don’t make any assumptions about the film based on what you’re seeing.
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Looks like a DVD cover of a forgotten early 90s Sean Penn film
Devin, have you seen the Red Riding trilogy? If so, what are your thoughts on it?
The Australian poster is a family portrait with the mother in the middle and the "simple" son in the front. Ben Mendelsohn believes it's been rated too young. Young guys are only getting the Chopper/Scarface power-fantasy message.
For some reason, indie/foreign filmmakers never get a good grasp on how important production stills are for marketing purposes. There's rarely a budget for a good still photographer on set. Flatly, without good photos, magazines and Web sites have a hard time running stories on a given film, and the key art always suffers. Somebody should have used a brain cell (or two) and designed something better than this amateur effort.
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They have plenty of great photos from Animal Kingdom. The Australian and Sundance posters were completely different. I have no idea why they didn't just run with the Australian poster. This poster is terrible. Great film anyway. Sort of the Anti-A Prohet.
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