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 | | After all, Sachs’s Memphis is an uninviting place: it’s a provincial world packed with regional flare and a bustling local culture, but it’s rather unwelcoming to those marked by difference—racial, ethnic, sexual, or otherwise. |
 | | He has an admirably slow, descriptive visual style; he doesn’t seem to like unmotivated cutting, and he often resists easy close-ups in favor of more compelling longer shots. |
 | | So it feels more like a fault of the screenplay, co-scripted by Sachs and Michael Rohatyn, that the film’s subsequent developments seem obvious, even as character motivation proves rather murky and muddled. |
| www.reverseshot.com /legacy/dogdays05/forty.html (772 words) |
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