Cold weather

Aaron Katz's indie film stars Cris Lankenau and Trieste Kelly Dunn as grown siblings investigating a mystery in Portland, Ore.

Cold Weather, the latest micro-budget movie from writer-director-editor Aaron Katz, is like an exquisite minimalist painting — its beauty will move you, its simplicity will fool you. For there are layers and complexities to be found in the film, like the many mysteries it slowly exposes.
The opening image sets the mood, lingering on a rain-soaked window, its lovely gray blur accompanied by a surprisingly sunny tune from composer Keegan DeWitt's richly textured original score. That soon gives way to an overhead shot of a carefully manicured apartment courtyard, empty, then entered by a guy carrying a big cardboard box. [...]

di Betsy Sharkey, articolo completo (3566 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 11 febbraio 2011