1997 · comedy · drama
Henry Fool
Directed by Hal Hartley2h 17m1997
An egocentric bum transforms the lives of a shy New Jersey garbageman and his sister.
Our read: Henry Fool (1997) reads as a neutral, steady, inventive comedy · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, steady, measured comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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“You want deadpan Hal Hartley absurdism about art, sex, and a charismatic fraud.”
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