A Little Prayer

From In Review Online: "Late in Angus MacLachlan’s A Little Prayer, as army veteran Bill (David Strathairn) and his daughter-in-law Tammy (Jane Levy) visit an art gallery in their hometown of Winston-Salem, they appraise an oil painting by the 19th-century American landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church. “The infinite botanical detail, the terrifying depths of the valleys, and the overwhelming sense of unlimited space in the open panorama,” Tammy reads from the painting’s description, “combine to communicate a powerful sense of the sublime.” As Scott Miller’s camera glides over the composite vistas that comprise The Andes of Ecuador, something springs forth, ineffable, from the image. The staggering scenes of nature Bill and Tammy behold are a far cry from their quiet, suburban lives, but Church’s vision of pastoral grace — hued with the piercing glow of the sun — squares remarkably with their modest own."

McLachlan wrote the screenplay to the excellent 2005 film Junebug, also set in North Carolina.

Showtime is 5:00, so I set the meetup start time to 4:45 to give us time to get our tickets and actually meet up at the Meetup. Afterwards, we can walk over to Siam Zap for dinner, drinks, and discussion.