2sdays: "Chained for Life"
2sdays: "Chained for Life"
Chained for Life is a low budget indie film that is unpredictable as it is original, a most unusual story about a beautiful actress struggling to connect with her disfigured co-star on the set of a European auteur's English-language debut. Through pitch-black satire, Chained for Life examines the treatment of disability on screen and on set, so the subject is serious, but there are plenty of laughs.
“(Chained for Life) is almost every kind of strange, and yet it has an amiable warmth and an inexhaustible reserve of originality that makes it compelling.” says Leslie Felperin of The Guardian.
Robert Abele of the Los Angeles Times explains the dual nature of the story, saying it is anchored by the natural charm of the two leads, Jess Weixler and Adam Pearson: Chained for Life “stands up as both a quiet ode to the experimental, dreamlike spirit of moviemaking and a seriocomic corrective to sentimentalized sideshow portrayals.”
Ben Kenigsberg of the New York Times calls the film “odd, darkly funny and — when it means to be — a little frightening.”
If that sounds like fun — and you want to feel like you’re at a film festival — come out to the library to see Chained for Life.
1:32, not rated.
- Date:
- Tuesday, February 4, 2020 Show more dates
- Time:
- 2:00pm - 4:00pm Eastern Time
- Location:
- Multi-Purpose Room A
- Library:
- Dover Public Library
- Audience:
- Adults
- Categories:
- Community and Culture