★★★★☆Nathan Silver has been gradually nurturing a reputation as a director with a deft eye for detail and an astonishing ability for documenting the seemingly insignificant anxieties of modern life. Edinburgh Film Festival select Uncertain Terms (2014) is his most compelling and accomplished film to date, a small but deceptively complex character-driven drama set in a halfway house for pregnant teens that's both charmingly facetious and emotionally compelling. Robbie (David Dahlbom) is fleeing his life in New York to spend some time working at his aunt's retreat for unmarried pregnant teenagers. He's hoping that a few weeks away will help take his mind of his disintegrating marriage.
- 6/24/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Filmmaker Nathan Silver has delivered four feature films in about as many years, and the latest, “Uncertain Terms,” continues in the style of naturalistic, bittersweet tales. It’s a family affair for Silver, as he often casts his mother, Cindy Silver, and in “Uncertain Terms” he even takes inspiration from her own life story. Silver the matriarch plays Carla, the proprietress of a home for pregnant teenagers, much like the one where she spent some time as a teenager herself, and Silver the director/co-writer makes an appearance as her layabout son Lenny, whose cousin Robbie (David Dahlbom) shows up at a moment’s notice when his life gets turned upside down. The resulting film is a wry, oddly funny, but poignant work that showcases Silver’s laid-back but effective cinematic storytelling style, and talent for shaping performances from non-traditional actors. Robbie shows up on Carla’s doorstep to cool...
- 6/17/2014
- by Katie Walsh
- The Playlist
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