Junebug

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(c) AJMalouin
(Rating: 1 by Al)
(2005/USA. Directed by Phil Morrison.) (1 hour 47. Rated R for sexual content and language.)

The South is a different place. Granted, The Black Hills, The San Diego Zoo and The Motor City are different places, also. The American South, however, is A Very Different Place. “Junebug” captures this place and brings it home alive.

This film contains the best ensemble of great acting that you’ll see of any film made in 2005. Amy Adams, playing the pregnant wife Ashley, received a Special Jury Prize for Acting at Sundance 2005 for her work in “Junebug,” but five or six other actors turned in stunning performances, as well.

The story revolves around a visit of two newlyweds to the groom’s family in their Southern home. The couple has been married for six months, after knowing each other for five days. Obviously they are still getting used to each other.

While this is going on, the bride (played fetchingly by Embeth Davidtz) is Suddenly thrown into the culture of the groom’s southern family. The bride is an NYC art gallery owner specializing in Outsider Art. She takes a road trip to North Carolina with her new husband to woo an artist who creates Outsider art. The artist and his sister, who is his agent, turn in marvelous performances. We are amazed by the kind of art that turns up in such a place.

The groom’s parents live just an hour down the road from the Outsider artist. Because the groom has gone to NYC trying to escape his past, his parents were not invited to the wedding. Actors Celia Weston plays the chain-smoking mom. Scott Wilson plays taciturn father. The couple arrive just as the groom’s brother’s wife is about to go into delivery of their first baby.

The groom’s brother, played by Benjamin McKenzie, is a totally angry young man in total denial of his entire life. He resents the groom (played by Alessandro Nivola) for having escaped the perceived boredom of this small southern town lifestyle.

Peter Donahue’s camera does a fine job of recording the seeming stillness and timeless unchanging serenity of southern life.

The actors counter-point that stillness and serenity with performances full of seething turmoil.

The community meal that takes place in the church basement is especially revealing. It is impossible to believe that the young preacher, played by R. Keith Harris, is not Actually a preacher. When the groom gets up to sing a church hymn, his new bride looks at him as if she is truly seeing him for the first time.

As the newlyweds leave his parents’ house to head back to NYC, the groom says “I am sooooo glad to get the f*&#k out of there.” His brother, meanwhile, has made first steps toward enhancing the life from which his brother is fleeing. This is a film you should not miss!!!