The Evening Hour (film)

Movie
Original title	The Evening Hour
Country of production	United States
original language	English
length	114 minutes
Rod
Director	Braden King
script	Elizabeth Palmore
production	Lucas Joaquin , ; Braden King, ; Tom Skapars , ; Derrick Tseng , ; Tim White
music	Boxhead Ensemble , ; Michael Krassner , ; Tim Rutili
camera	Declan Quinn
cut	Andrew Hafitz , ; Joseph Krings
occupation
	Philip Ettinger : Cole Freeman; Stacy Martin : Charlotte Carson; Cosmo Jarvis : Terry Rose; Hannah Barefoot : Kathy Rose; Kerry Bishé : Lacy Cooper; Marc Menchaca : Everett; Lili Taylor : Ruby Freeman; Tess Harper : Dorothy Freeman; Frank Hoyt Taylor : Clyde Freeman;

The Evening Hour is a Braden King drama film that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2020 . The film is based on the 2012 novel by Carter Sickels of the same name .

action

Dove Creek, West Virginia, was once a thriving American mining town. Now this post-industrial community in the Appalachians is in decline. Cole Freeman works as a helper in a nursing home and takes care of the elderly. However, he can hardly make ends meet, even if he deals in illegal painkillers on the side. Like many of his generation, he is looking for a way out, but in this rapidly changing world there are few options for him.

Literary template

The film is based on The Evening Hour: A Novel by Carter Sickels , which was published by Bloomsbury in 2012. The central figure, Cole, is a man of around 30 who rarely speaks more than three words and only smoothly answers questions. He was raised by his grandfather, who is firmly entrenched in the Bible and who only calls his mother a whore. Cole is frustrated, often lonely, and tired. He takes longer to grow up than other people and finds it difficult to make the decisions that come with adulthood. Cole would like to be a nurse and also has the intelligence to attend college, but does not bring up the belief in himself that is necessary to change his life on his own. Carter Sickels also describes in his novel how the people in the Appalachians lead a hard life, they lack the strength to mess with the mining companies that poison their water, flood their land and try to get them to sell their property, even though they are deeply rooted in this area. When news teams come into their area, people feel like they are being portrayed as completely backward by them. In the USA, people living in rural, mountainous areas such as the Appalachians are often disparagingly portrayed as "backwoodsmen" or "country eggs".

production

Philip Ettinger plays the leading role Cole Freeman

Directed by Braden King , while Elizabeth Palmore Sickels novel adapted for the film. For King, after Here, it is the second feature film he directed, for Palmore it is the first work as a screenwriter.

Philip Ettinger plays Cole Freeman. Tess Harper and Frank Hoyt Taylor play his grandparents Dorothy and Clyde, who raised him. Cosmo Jarvis took on the role of Cole's former high school buddy Terry Rose, who is returning to Dove Creek after a long absence with a woman, Kathy. The also returning former classmate Lacy Cooper is played by Kerry Bishé . Lili Taylor plays Coles’s mother, Ruby, who appears at the funeral after his grandfather’s death. Stacy Martin plays Cole's ex-girlfriend Charlotte Carson.

The shooting took place in the fall of 2018 in Harlan County , Kentucky, so in Wallins. Declan Quinn acted as cameraman .

The first screening of the film took place on January 27, 2020 as part of the Sundance Film Festival . Shortly afterwards it was presented in the Big Screen Competition at the International Film Festival Rotterdam . In June 2020 it was shown at the Lighthouse International Film Festival.

reception

Reviews

The film has so far won over 90 percent of Rotten Tomatoes ' critics .

Awards

International Film Festival Rotterdam 2020

Nomination for the Big Screen Award (Braden King)

Sundance Film Festival 2020

Nomination in the US Dramatic Competition (Braden King)

literature

Carter Sickels: The Evening Hour: A Novel . Bloomsbury, 2012. ISBN 978-1-60819-597-8

Web links

Commons : The Evening Hour - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c The Evening Hour. In: iffr.com. Retrieved June 24, 2020.
↑ Wendy Ide: 'The Evening Hour': Rotterdam Review. In: screendaily.com, January 29, 2020.
↑ https://www.ruminatemagazine.com/blogs/ruminate-blog/review-of-the-evening-hour-by-carter-sickels
^ The Evening Hour by A. Carter Sickels. In: tzerisland.com, January 13, 2012.
^ Dennis Harvey: 'The Evening Hour': Film Review. In: Variety, January 27, 2020.
↑ Carter Sickels: Shoot Day 28 of 29, 11/14/18. In: cartersickels.com, December 31, 2018.
↑ Program of the Lighthouse International Film Festival 2020. In: lighthousefilmfestival.org. Retrieved June 23, 2020 (PDF; 50 MB)
^ The Evening Hour. In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved June 24, 2020.

[iffr.com-1] The Evening Hour. In: iffr.com. Retrieved June 24, 2020.

[screendaily.comIde-2] Wendy Ide: 'The Evening Hour': Rotterdam Review. In: screendaily.com, January 29, 2020.

[3] ttps://www.ruminatemagazine.com/blogs/ruminate-blog/review-of-the-evening-hour-by-carter-sickels

[4] The Evening Hour by A. Carter Sickels. In: tzerisland.com, January 13, 2012.

[5] Dennis Harvey: 'The Evening Hour': Film Review. In: Variety, January 27, 2020.

[6] Carter Sickels: Shoot Day 28 of 29, 11/14/18. In: cartersickels.com, December 31, 2018.

[7] Program of the Lighthouse International Film Festival 2020. In: lighthousefilmfestival.org. Retrieved June 23, 2020 (PDF; 50 MB)

[8] The Evening Hour. In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved June 24, 2020.