bamcinemaFest: For Ellen

Part of BAMcinemaFest

Thu, Jun 28 at 9:15pm
Q&A with So Yong Kim and Paul Dano

NY PREMIERE

Director: So Yong Kim
Executive Producer: Paul Dano, Jonathan Vinnik, Michael Clofine, Tricia Quick, Rui Costa Reis, Dave Berlin
Producer: Jen Gatien, Bradley Rust Gray, So Yong Kim 
Cinematographer: Reed Morano
With Paul Dano, Jon Heder, Jena Malone, Margarita Levieva, Shaylena Mandigo, Julian Gamble

(2012) 95min

This latest film from Kim (Treeless Mountain), a hypnotic, humanistic character study, stars Paul Dano as Joby, an unstable, semi-delusional musician (Paul Dano) struggling for redemption. In a last-ditch effort to develop a bond with—and earn custody of—his young daughter, he makes an overnight long-distance drive to meet with his his ex-wife. With Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite) as Joby’s affable lawyer.