Surrounded by towering mountains and glistening lakes somewhere in southwest Colorado, a lithe, weathered woman (Dale Dickie) catches crawfish and waits for someone special to arrive in her tiny campervan. The woman is Faye, and like Rito (Wes Studi), her childhood friend Lito (Wes Studi), who wants her to accept her invitation, she’s been widowed for a long time. Maybe he’s ready for some company too.
A slow, sweet, soothing ‘Love Song’, Max Walker Silberman’s lovely first feature is about longing for late life and a need that never quite goes away. Building solid characters out of scant information (Fay used to be a bush pilot and Rito was a musician), the two leads embrace scripted (by the director) filled with long silences and searching close-ups. . Searching for bird species by day and constellations by night, Fay’s Transistor leaks his pathetic country songs from his radio. she lives and learns
Occasionally, distracted visitors wander into Faye’s campsite — friendly neighbors with dinner invitations, native cowhands with unusual demands — their whimsical intrusions are carefree and unobtrusive. Adds flavor to the story. But we quickly realize that the title celebrates multiple kinds of love. , which celebrates the resilient, unsinkable and untethered. This stubbornness is reflected in the simplicity of Faye’s diet and daily life as much as Alfonso Herrera Salcedo’s patient shots of flowering plants plunging through parched earth.
Some of those flowers are plucked and presented, ice cream is eaten, and memories are shared before this serene film lingers in the heart of mourning doves. (Cowhand is played by four of his closest friends, and his former roommate Ramzi Bashour is in the film’s role.) I composed the score. sstrategy.
“We had a day and a night, and each got a book,” she told Rito.
Love song
Rated PG. Running time: 1 hour 21 minutes. at the theater.
