Film Review: Lorelei (2020): Jena Malone and Pablo Schreiber Are Terrific in a Moving Romantic Drama
Lorelei Review — Lorelei (2020) Film Review, a movie directed by Sabrina Doyle, and starring Pablo Schreiber, Jena Malone, Ryan Findley, Trish Egan, Jerry Bell Jr., Chancellor Perry, Parker Pascoe-Sheppard, Amelia Borgerding, Lynn Sher, Rowan Ryan, and Karen Rasor. Director Sabrina Doyle’s deep working-class drama, Lorelei, features an intriguing story line which is made all [...]
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- 8/3/2021
- by Thomas Duffy
- Film-Book
A melancholic mood permeates “Lorelei,” a love story, character study and social melodrama somberly if unevenly rolled into one, with the subtlest touch of mysticism. Set amid the picturesquely dewy backdrops, brisk natural lights and impossibly tall trees of Oregon, writer-director Sabrina Doyle’s fable-like tale of working-class Americans on the fringe navigates its elusive waters with compassion and care, even when it veers into some predictable shallows from time to time.
More often than not, though, debut feature filmmaker Doyle’s commitment to quiet moments of humanism sells this unassuming story. Commendably, the director sidesteps patronizing miserabilism, yielding an empathetic yarn of second chances that steadfast leads Pablo Schreiber and Jena Malone elevate through their delicately reflective performances. In a thematic landscape that loosely resembles Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s “The Mustang” and the lesser known but worthy “The Free World” by Jason Lew, the duo portray Wayland and Lola,...
More often than not, though, debut feature filmmaker Doyle’s commitment to quiet moments of humanism sells this unassuming story. Commendably, the director sidesteps patronizing miserabilism, yielding an empathetic yarn of second chances that steadfast leads Pablo Schreiber and Jena Malone elevate through their delicately reflective performances. In a thematic landscape that loosely resembles Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s “The Mustang” and the lesser known but worthy “The Free World” by Jason Lew, the duo portray Wayland and Lola,...
- 7/29/2021
- by Tomris Laffly
- Variety Film + TV
They had a plan. Wayland (Pablo Schreiber) would make as much money as he could running drugs for his local motorcycle club until he and high school sweetheart Dolores (Jena Malone) had enough to drive to Los Angeles and make their dreams come true. An undercover police officer changed all that, though. Instead of watching the sunrise over the Pacific together, Wayland found himself in jail for fifteen years while Dolores sought to make do on her own en route to having three kids from three different fathers. That they would ever think a reunion could reclaim the spark of their youth is a fantasy in and of itself, yet seeing each other after so much time has them believing their long-lost happy ending might remain possible.
Debut writer-director Sabrina Doyle may not have grown up in working-class Oregon, but her own self-proclaimed existence as an outsider in England surely...
Debut writer-director Sabrina Doyle may not have grown up in working-class Oregon, but her own self-proclaimed existence as an outsider in England surely...
- 7/26/2021
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Learning to live again on the outside after 15 years in prison is always a tough ask. Many people don't make it, but Wayland (Pablo Schreiber) is determined to be one of those who do. Initially provided with shelter by a tough but fair pastor (Trish Egan) who may have a few secrets of her own, he manages to find a job and start earning an honest living. He also meets Dolores (Jena Malone), the teenage girlfriend he left behind, who now has three kids to look after but doesn't seem to have done much growing up, perhaps because it's difficult to become anything that feels worthwhile in the perpetually grim surroundings of small town Oregon. She's still excited by him and before long he gets permission to move in with her, but there's a deep restlessness about her that sets alarm bells ringing. Is she just looking for a...
- 5/22/2020
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Fans of religious horror, keep your eyes on Todd and Jason Freeman's Wake Before I Die, a feature length film adapted from the novel My Soul to Take by their pastor father Dale Freeman. Check out the trailer and a new poster from artist Tom Hodge at The Dude Designs - and Fear Thy Neighbor!
Wake Before I Die was written and directed by The Brothers Freeman. It stars Robert McKeehen, Audrey Walker, Cheyenne Canfield, Elijah Nelson, Nouel Riel, Michael J. Prosser, Joshua St. James, Benedict Herrman, Victor Morris, Danny Bruno, Robert Blanche, Adrienne Vogel, Trish Egan, Betty Moyer, and Josiah Nelson. Robert Blanche produced.
“This was the first film that we shot in 2010," says Todd on the film's website. "Jason and I adapted the screenplay from our dad’s book My Soul to Take. Later that year we shot The Weather Outside, written and directed by Jason, and Cell Count,...
Wake Before I Die was written and directed by The Brothers Freeman. It stars Robert McKeehen, Audrey Walker, Cheyenne Canfield, Elijah Nelson, Nouel Riel, Michael J. Prosser, Joshua St. James, Benedict Herrman, Victor Morris, Danny Bruno, Robert Blanche, Adrienne Vogel, Trish Egan, Betty Moyer, and Josiah Nelson. Robert Blanche produced.
“This was the first film that we shot in 2010," says Todd on the film's website. "Jason and I adapted the screenplay from our dad’s book My Soul to Take. Later that year we shot The Weather Outside, written and directed by Jason, and Cell Count,...
- 1/5/2013
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
Animus Cross is most definitely delving into unchartered territory. You won't find any traditional web fare here—no scantily clad teens, silly jokes, or other web one-offs. Instead, in its first episode, Animus Cross begins to unfold the trappings of a much deeper story. Set in the post-Antebellum Northwest, and starring Jerry L. Buxbaum, Harold Phillips, Jeff Hime, Trish Egan, and Kathryne Bukowski, Animus Cross promises to be the web series worlds' first historical thriller. Creator A.L. Steen is fully aware of the unique landscape she's chosen for the series. "I wanted to make my life as difficult as possible, obviously," says Steen. "A creature feature set just after the Civil War is not exactly the subject matter most people doing a web series would choose."...
- 11/12/2008
- by Lindsay Stidham
- Tubefilter.com
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