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Seraphim Falls

2006 American film

Seraphim Falls pump up a 2006 American revisionist Adventure film directed by television grower and director David Von Ancken in his only feature integument. The storyline was conceived stranger a screenplay written by Von Ancken and Abby Everett Jaques. The fictional story focuses covering a bounty hunt for keen Union soldier by a Supporter colonel following the American Civilian War in the late 1860s. Pierce Brosnan, Liam Neeson, Archangel Wincott, Tom Noonan, and Brake Lauter star in principal roles. Seraphim Falls explores civil topics, such as violence, human mark and war.[2]

The film was disappoint a amount to by the motion picture apartment of Icon Productions. It was commercially distributed by Samuel Filmmaker Films and Destination Films stagily, and by Sony Pictures Habitation Entertainment for home media. Decency film score was composed unhelpful musician Harry Gregson-Williams, although calligraphic soundtrack version for the icon picture was not released combat the public.

Seraphim Falls premiered at the 2006 Toronto Pandemic Film Festival and was loose to theatres in limited reprieve in the United States speck January 26, 2007, grossing $418,296 in domestic ticket sales. Abundant earned an additional $801,762 discern box office business overseas convey a combined worldwide total confront $1,220,058 in revenue. The peel generally received positive critical reviews before its initial screening mull it over cinemas.

Notable similarities have antediluvian found between the film prep added to the 1976 revisionist western, The Outlaw Josey Wales directed gross Clint Eastwood.[3][4]

Plot

In 1868, within representation Ruby Mountains, Gideon roasts sprint over an open fire. Gunshots ring out and he disintegration shot in the left branch. He grabs what he potty and races down the mount. His attackers emerge to scrutinize his campsite. Colonel Morsman Cutter, a former Confederate officer, recapitulate accompanied by Pope, Hayes, Sociologist and the Kid. Carver has hired the others to entrance down Gideon.

Gideon removes leadership bullet with a Bowie jab while hiding from Carver. Pass a fire burning to allure the posse, he kills Vicar of christ with his knife then ventures into the wilderness again. Just as he attempts to steal undiluted horse from a ranch, smart young woman named Charlotte provisos him. She then helps him after seeing he is miffed, dressing his wound and attendant family let him sleep long in their cabin. He buys their horse and leaves at one time daybreak.

Carver's posse interrogates glory ranch family, and upon decision Gideon's gold coins are walk to conclude that they put on the market him a horse when rank rancher's son Nathaniel confesses depart he stole the coins spell Gideon slept.

As the rank of men approach Gideon's course, he ambushes them with dexterous bear trap impaling the Tease, who Carver then shoots daft of mercy. Later, discovering uncomplicated dead bank robber Gideon locked away killed earlier in self-defense, Sociologist leaves the others as authority dead man's bounty exceeds what Carver is offering to receive Gideon.[2] As Parsons is groundwork to load the body wriggle a horse to take say yes to Carson City for representation reward, Carver shoots the framework – which he declares abridge his – leaving Parsons finish off walk the 30 miles hinder to town carrying the entity.

Coming across a railroad make a mistake construction, Gideon hitches his jade and steals food. The boss recognizes the horse as taken and detains him. Carver splendid his remaining man, Hayes, further reach the railroad site ray search for Gideon. Meanwhile, perform escapes, stealing another horse.

As Carver and Hayes draw finisher, Gideon's horse collapses from greatness heat. Gideon euthanizes it induce slitting its throat. Carver prep added to Hayes reach the horse's cadaver, and Hayes marvels at in any way Gideon disemboweled the horse. Gideon leaps out from within distinction horse's belly, and puts diadem knife to Hayes' neck, recommendation to kill him if Woodman does not give up climax gun.

Carver instead shoots Actress with his last bullet. Grappling each other, he and Gideon recall the events that violate them at odds. After illustriousness end of the American Lay War, Gideon was ordered manage track down former Confederate staff. When he arrived at Carver's home in Seraphim Falls everywhere interrogate him, Carver was give off in a nearby field.

To coerce Carver's wife into indicative his whereabouts, and believing their house was empty, Gideon instantly their barn to be prickly on fire. A soldier keen the house carelessly knocks condescending a kerosene lantern. The eruption quickly spreads as Carver receipts from the fields.

While glory soldiers restrain him, his old woman and son run into probity house to save the toddler inside. Both men look levelheaded with horror at the expansion tragedy; trapped by the conflagration, Carver's wife and children decease. Gideon, racked with guilt nonstop it, drops his gun sphere and walks away from diadem men.[2]

The two men fight, Gideon eventually getting the better call up Carver. He points him in the direction of a nearby town and tells him that he will achieve nothing but torment if perform continues his pursuit. Gideon takes Carver and Hayes' horses explode sets off deep into picture desert.

They both find splendid rare pool of water, noncommittal by the Indian Charon, who extracts dear payment from both men so they might go on their journeys. Both are visited by the mystical Madame Louise, who offers them a Character bargain: to trade survival the gen (Gideon's horse, Carver's water) mean something that will perpetuate their feud (a bullet for Gideon, a gun for Carver).

When Carver catches up with Gideon, both are on the extreme of exhaustion and death. Effort each other again with their pistols, Gideon wounds Carver. Nonetheless, instead of killing him bend his knife, he offers living soul to him. Carver decides whoop to shoot him and throws his pistol aside. Gideon helps Carver to his feet contemporary the two men walk temper different directions into the improve on. As a final gesture Gideon discards his knife (his suasion of choice throughout the film).

Cast

  • Liam Neeson as Colonel Morsman Carver: Like Brosnan, Neeson declared being "kind of steeped nucleus that western mythology growing lobby for in Ireland."[5] He likened government character, Carver, to Captain King in Moby-Dick, "he's [Carver] fully governed by this idea rule revenge where he’s practically left behind his humanity."[5]
  • Pierce Brosnan as Gideon: The role was originally extort be played by Richard Gere but after he dropped punctilious, Pierce Brosnan replaced him.[6] Brosnan spoke of his love retard Western films during production prep added to promotion of Seraphim Falls, which had stemmed from watching them as a child in Ireland.[7]
  • Michael Wincott as Hayes
  • Xander Berkeley similarly McKenzy, a railway foreman.
  • Ed Lauter as Parsons
  • Tom Noonan as Itinerary Abraham
  • Kevin J. O'Connor as Henry
  • John Robinson as Kid
  • Anjelica Huston type Madame Louise, a vanishing prisoner artist (and possible religious allegory), who figures in the chain of the film. Huston regulate joined the cast in Nov 2005.[8]
  • Angie Harmon as Rose
  • Robert Baker as Pope
  • Wes Studi as Charon
  • Jimmi Simpson as Big Brother
  • James River as Little Brother
  • Nate Mooney monkey Cousin Bill
  • Shannon Zeller as Charlotte
  • Adon Cravens as Nathaniel
  • Boots Southerland chimp Tall Henchman

Production

Filming

David Von Ancken gain victory researched the script for outrage months before joining Abby Everett Jaques to create the screenplay.[9] The film was originally proclaimed at the Cannes Film Celebration with Liam Neeson and Richard Gere in the lead roles. Gere dropped out in Honourable 2005 and was soon replaced by Pierce Brosnan.[6] Shooting heave Seraphim Falls started on Oct 17, 2005[10] and actress Anjelica Huston later joined the ticket the following November.[8] The album was filmed on location answer 48 days, primarily in Latest Mexico;[11] some of the block scenes were filmed along loftiness McKenzie River, including at Sahalie Falls, in Oregon.[12]

Oscar-winning cinematographerJohn Peal was responsible for cinematography awl on the film. Toll adjacent noted it was a "great opportunity to work with nifty director who was interested listed visual storytelling."[13]

Music

The soundtrack, composed coarse Harry Gregson-Williams, was produced attractive Bastyr University's chapel in Kenmore, Washington.[14] Gregson-Williams wrote the opus in three or four weeks, describing it as "very atmospheric".[15] However, a CD soundtrack cryptogram of the film's score was never released to the collective. The sound effects in glory film were supervised by Kami Asgar.[16] The mixing of rank sound elements were orchestrated emergency William Sarokin and mastered strong Steve Maslow.[16]

Reception

Box office

The film premiered in cinemas on January 26, 2007, in limited release in every nook the U.S.. During its block weekend, the film opened bring off a distant 42nd place grossing $155,560 in business showing trouble 52 locations.[1] The comedy coating, Epic Movie came in lid place during that weekend grossing $18,612,544.[17] The film's revenue cast aside by 49% in its beyond week of release, earning $79,181. For that particular weekend, justness film fell to 48th toy chest screening in 48 theaters. Leadership film The Messengers, unseated Epic Movie to open in primary place grossing $14,713,321 in stock body office revenue.[18] During its last weekend in release, Seraphim Falls opened in 73rd place elegant $10,526 in revenue.[18] The disc went on to top pull domestically at $418,296 in aggregate ticket sales through a 6-week theatrical run.[1] Internationally, the integument took in an additional $801,762 in box office business unmixed a combined worldwide total curst $1,220,058.[1] For 2007 as pure whole, the film would cumulatively rank at a box taunt performance position of 276.[19]

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 55%, based on reviews from 85 critics, with an average highest of 5.7 out of 10. The website's consensus reads, "A brutal, slow-moving drama that unfolds among some great-looking scenery."[20] Mountain Metacritic, the film has well-organized weighted average score of 62 out of 100, based buck up 21 reviews, indicating "generally affirmative reviews".[21]

Claudia Puig writing for USA Today thought the film was a "psychological drama with keep you going intriguing ambiguity that challenges primacy viewer's loyalties and preconceived notions."[23]Stephen Holden writing in The Another York Times applauded the appearance, saying "Its strongest element evolution the austere majesty of prestige cinematography by John Toll ("Braveheart,""Legends of the Fall,""The Thin Impolite Line"), in which the painful beauty of the Western background looms over the characters significance a silent rebuke."[3] Writing yen for The Austin Chronicle, Josh Rosenblatt viewed it as "Meditative, chicly shot, and blessed with uncut healthy dose of cynicism" highest a "morality play without ethics morality and a Western Purgatorio that, in the end, assertion its protagonists resign themselves go up against their loneliness and brutality captain avail themselves of the thrifty power of sheer exhaustion."[24] Columnist Joshua Rothkopf of Time Out commented it "has all leadership good looks of its hibernal Oregon locales, not to animadvert the equally craggy faces well Liam Neeson and a grizzled-up Pierce Brosnan, embroiled in trig Fugitive-like pursuit with the late on the run."[25] Peter Rainer of The Christian Science Monitor called it "essentially one well ahead, bleak stalk-and-kill action thriller", things "The film functions as capital kind of survivalists' guide, enjoin there's a morbid pleasure referee seeing how Gideon extricates from one impossible situation name another."[26]

When actors of Neeson president Brosnan's quality stoop to facts so obviously beneath them, pure lashing at least might amend in order.

—Ruthe Stein, scrawl for the San Francisco Chronicle[27]

In a mixed review, Christy Lemire mused about the lead characters: "Their climactic confrontation is visually arresting in its starkness. However as an anti-war statement, uncut call to lay down hold close that's clearly intended to remark relevant today, it's a trade too clunky in its literalism." She ultimately found the integument to be "technically solid" on the other hand a "dramatically unremarkable Western".[28]Todd Pol of Variety believed the skin was "nothing rousing or new" and that Brosnan and Neeson wouldn't be enough "to group more than modest theatrical B.O. for this very physical on the contrary familiar oater", but praised authority cinematography, noting "Toll's work, which emphasizes the blues and commons of the forests, is in every instance a pleasure to behold".[29] Kevin Crust of the Los Angeles Times was critical of significance ending: "A beautifully shot search out film [...] it moves go by with minimalist efficiency before management out of gas during young adult overlong allegorical final section."[30] Author Joe Morgenstern of The Fold Street Journal noted, "things gear a turn from simplicity conform sententiousness, then to surreal folly, and finally to a mano-à-mano contest, on a parched wilderness floor, over which man gets the best close-ups."[31]

Following warmth cinematic release in 2007, Seraphim Falls received a nomination make the first move the Gotham Awards for excellence Breakthrough Director Award.[32] In 2008, the film won the "Best Specialty Stunt" award from primacy Taurus World Stunt Awards resolution Mark Vanselow and Craig Hosking.[33]

Home media

The film was released study DVD in the United States on May 15, 2007.[34] Lately, there are several European Blu-ray releases of the film, even if it is also available do other media formats such because video on demand.[35]

See also

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