movie review - Hard Eight
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-eight years and a million words
Toronto, 2002.10.16
This is a movie about a handful of lowlifes who congeal into a family of sorts that I recommend whole-heartedly. It's a perfectly-paced, brilliantly written and surprisingly simple tale that unfolds towards a desperate conclusion without a false note. And, strangely, I find that in trying to relate even a plot outline does the film an injustice because such an outline would be like telling this one back-to-front. It's the way that this story comes together that makes it what it is. Strongly recommended.