Two Gates of Sleep

United States

2010

78 Min

Color

2.35:1

English

Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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EXEC Antonio Campos, Sean Durkin

CAST Brady Corbet, David Call, Karen Young, Ross Francis, Ritchie Montgomery, Lindsay Soileau

ED Alistair Banks Griffin, Brady Corbet

MUSIC Saunder Jurriaans, Daniel Bensi

SOUND Micah Bloomberg

Cannes (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs), London (World Cinema), São Paulo (New Filmmakers Competition), AFI FEST (Young Americans), CPH PIX (New Talent Grand Prix): New Talent Award

Synopsis

After preparing for their mother’s imminent death, two brothers go on an arduous upriver journey to honor her final request. –Quinzaine des Réalisateurs

Director

ALISTAIR BANKS GRIFFIN was born in England 1978 and raised in New Orleans, studied painting, film and art history at Rhode Island School of Design.
In 2008 Mr. Griffin’s short film GAUGE premiered at the New York Film Festival. In 2009 he was the recipient of a Cinereach grant. His feature debut, TWO GATES OF SLEEP competed for the Camera D’Or when it premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival and has screened in numerous international festivals and museums and will be released theatrically in the US in spring 2011 and was produced by Borderline Films and Andrew F. Renzi. Most recently Griffin was commissioned to produce and photograph the installation film HALF MAST/FULL MAST for the Gladstone artists Allora & Calzadilla which will be a centerpiece in the American Pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennale and is in development on an film adaptation of the novel OYSTER with co-creator of HBO’s Treme, Eric Overmyer and a mini-seires based on Hernan Cortes’s translator Geronimo de… read more

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Robert Orlowski

7Apr13

The down-tempo pace and relatively dry plot, forces the attention towards the transcendental conflicts happening in the film. The emphasis is not placed as heavily on the journey of the two brothers, specifically Corbet's character, rather on the relation of their journey to the world that surrounds them. At the end, Griffin asks us to question if free-will is actually in the hands of man, or nature.