Special Promotion for Shoreline Arts Alliance members & friends. Click here for tickets and enter promotional code - CLUTTER - for Sunday night's screening, talk back and reception of Clutter!
Do Connecticut filmmakers Paul Marcarelli and Molly Pearson have another award-winning movie on the big screen? You can judge for yourself this coming weekend as this season’s Connecticut Film Festival at the Katharine Hepburn Cultural Art Center (Old Saybrook) closes this series with the Marcarelli/Pearson dark comedy film Clutter starring Oscar nominated and Emmy award winner Carol Kane with Joshua Leonard, Natasha Lyonne, Halley Feiffer, Maria Dizzia, Daniel London, Dan Hedaya, and Kathy Najimi. At the 2010 festival Paul and Molly took home the award for Best Feature Film with their movie The Green.
Marcarelli, of New Milford and formerly of Guilford, wrote and co-produced the screenplay for Clutter with Molly Pearson. The film is directed by Diane Crespo. Clutter had its world premiere during closing weekend (June 7&9) of The New American Cinema Competition at Seattle International Film Festival, a distinction shared by just ten other films out of over 400 at the month-long festival. This screening on June 30th will mark its east coast premiere! Doors open at 6:00pm. The one time screening will begin at 7:00pm and will be followed by a Q&A with Paul, Molly, Diane and members of the cast. A catered after party will follow with passed hors d'oeuvre, beer, wine and non-alcoholic beverages courtesy of Some Things Fishy Catering. Paul has secured a special event price for Shoreline Arts Alliance e-newsletter subscribers and friends. Click here for tickets and enter the promotional code CLUTTER.
According to Tom Carruthers, Executive Director of CT Film Festival, Clutter is a powerful drama dealing with the intervention of The Bradford family amidst a household of disarray resulting from the mental inability of the home’s matriarch Linda, played by film, television and stage actress Carol Kane. Linda has a complex life complicated by her inability to distinguish some sort of reality between her past and present which is complicated by her compulsive need to collect things…. lots of things.
Breaking away from home, or a place called home can be difficult enough for someone who lives in a perfect world. It can be especially hard when you’re an adult burdened with the weight and guilt that accompanies watching out for an unstable parent or loved one like Linda. It can be even more complicated when torn between responsibility and pursuing a career. Such is the case with Linda’s son Charlie Bradford, played by Joshua Leonard, who has to deal with his mother’s mental stability and the sanity of his two sisters, while all the while trying to keep some assembly of a positive family dynamic and juggling a normal personal life.
Clutter’s storyline and delivery is creative and innovative. Its cast of characters is strong and well defined. The dialogue is choice and at times cutting, sometimes all way to the bone. The quirky and beautifully done animated transitions tie together its serious and humorous plot lines as smoothly and sensitively as the direction given to the cast by Director Diane Crespo.
Clutter is part of a new generation of films and filmmakers that needs to be championed and embraced. Films like Clutter reject the formulated norm and take chances. The creative production team at Table Ten Films is able to handle difficult subjects. Subjects that in the past were all too often glossed over or candy coated. It’s not just a drama. Clutter sends a strong social message - a message that needs to get out to a wider audience. Clutter is dynamic and it evokes a myriad of universal feelings that we all share. It makes us take a closer look at ourselves, our families and the strangers who we see living on the streets. It helps us resolve how to handle the feelings and shortcomings of others. It’s a tall order to take this kind of a story and make it into a thought provoking, yet entertaining and memorable movie going experience, something that these producers and the director do oh so well. See you at the movies!
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