SnagFilms Summerfest: 45365
SnagFilms’ SummerFest rolls on with 45365, the Best Documentary Feature winner of the 2009 SXSW Film Festival.
Here is SnagFilm’s opening blurb in case you’re too lazy to click over there for yourself. It’s been hand cut, bathed in buttermilk and egg, dredged in flour, deep fried to a golden brown and then artfully pasted here for your enlightenment by a carefully trained team of Bonobo (Pan Paniscus):
45365 (four, five, three, six, five) explores the congruities of daily life in an American town – Sidney, Ohio. Through a patient and inquisitive look at the lives and landscapes that make up this community of 20,000 people, it captures the complexities and ambiguities of their shared experience. Conclusions are left to the audience as the component characters speak and act for themselves, as themselves. These storylines eventually coalesce into a mosaic of faces, places, and events. It is an inquiring look at everyday life in middle America.
Watch the trailer at Apple, or just head on over to SnagFilms through 8/6 and watch the movie. It’s free!
Filed under: Documentaries
Tags: 45365, SnagFilms, SummerFest
Free!?! I’ve been excited for this one, but curse my travel schedule through 8/6!
‘”45365″ is a very good doc…my favorite from SXSW ‘09. I highly recommend it. It’s a compelling and wholly accurate mosaic of small town American life.
I haven’t had the time to sit down and check it out yet. I have to admit on the surface it doesn’t automatically grab me, but I liked the trailer and the funny thing about docs is that sometimes the best ones come from the least dramatic seeming subjects.