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Gentle, sweet ‘Grace’
Movies: Mari Marchbanks’ Austin-based movie “Fall to Grace” closes its short run at the Dobie Theatre tonight. It’s a gentle, sweet, slow film about a neighborhood challenged by moral drift (drugs) and is playing limited runs around the country.
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What pleased me most about the film was the sensitive acting from the cast selected by longtime Austin stage director Vicky Boone. Aside from the overstated Russian/Georgian accents, the performances are finely grained, transparently felt.
St. Edward’s University should buy up hundreds of copies of the DVD and distribute them to anyone interested in the school’s drama program, because almost every actor has, at one time or another, worked there. It was great fun seeing St. Ed’s grads and faculty gracefully translating stage charisma to the screen.
(Of course, Lee Eddy nabs one of the few laughs with a terrific throwaway line.)
Aside from the sometimes sticky pacing, my main complaint was the lack of visual continuity regarding the neighborhood, which, filmed all over Austin, had no clear geography.
Three stars.
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