peteg's blog - noise - movies - 2015 05 05 SimpleMen

Hal Hartley: Simple Men

Tue, May 05, 2015./noise/movies | Link

Yeah. Weaker than his first two features, but followed up by his taut and fantastic Surviving Desire, so emphatically just a blip. I like Bill Sage's affected ineffectualness here, and Martin Donovan is always amusing in a Hartley. Karen Sillas is valliant. Damian Young, as the sheriff, is still somewhat compis mentis here.