Is there some sort of record
for the longest running festival film?
Does anyone actually keep such stats?
If so, writer/director Thom Fitzgerald’s Cloudburst would seem to
be in the running as it has been in competition worldwide for over 18 months …
that’s quite a stretch without a theatrical push (even a limited arthouse run …
digital projection, you know) or a home entertainment launch.
That award-filled run
appears to be coming to an end as it was announced this past week that Wolfe
Video has picked up this delightful road movie for delivery to DVD on July 30.
Normally, a film that is working
the festival circuit plays for a season (maybe a little longer) and then makes
the move to a minor theatrical run, digital download or home entertainment. The mission having been accomplished
with nice reviews, public awareness and awards; a following; buzz — all the
good things that makes an indie film viable!
What makes Cloudburst
so interesting — beyond its quality — is that it stars not one, but two Oscar-winners
for acting — Olympia Dukakis (Best Supporting Actress, Moonstruck) and Brenda
Fricker (Best Supporting Actress, My Left Foot) — who are teamed as Stella
and Dotty, a lesbian couple in a multi-decade relationship that are forced to
go on the run if they are to maintain their relationship.
With Dotty (Fricker)
legally-blind and threatened with confinement to a nursing home by her family,
they decide that their only “legal” option is to hightail it to Canada, where
gay marriage is legal.
It does strike a
nerve. When vulnerable, others have a
way of making decisions for you … you run, you fight-back or you surrender and
simply go along with the program. There is no surrender in Dotty or Stella!
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