“Brandt impresses in this sensitive moving-on
drama"
- John DeFore,
The Hollywood Reporter
Narrative Spotlight Audience
Award – SXSW Film Festival 2016
Official Selection, New American Cinema
– Seattle International Film Festival 2016
Breaking Glass Pictures will release the upcoming psychological
drama/thriller CLAIRE IN MOTION on DVD April 14, 2017.
CAST:
Betsy Brandt, Anna Margaret Hollyman, Chris Beetem, Sakina Jaffrey
SYNOPSIS
Three weeks after Claire’s husband has mysteriously disappeared,
the police have ended their investigation and her son is beginning to grieve.
The only person who hasn’t given up is Claire. Soon she discovers his troubling
secrets, including an alluring yet manipulative graduate student with whom he
had formed a close bond. As she digs deeper, Claire begins to lose her grip on
how well she truly knew her husband and questions her own identity in the
process. Claire in Motion twists the missing person thriller into an
emotional take on uncertainty and loss.
CLAIRE IN MOTION is the second feature film by filmmaking
team Lisa Robinson and Annie J. Howell ("Small,
Beautifully Moving Parts") and stars Betsy
Brandt (“Breaking Bad”, “Life in Pieces”) in a breakthrough
performance that twists the missing person thriller into an emotional take
on uncertainty and loss.
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
With this film, we were interested in telling a story about
something that’s been lost — both physically and spiritually. It was intriguing
to give Claire a life crisis that leads to a bigger mystery, one that unravels
her perception of all she knows to be true. We wanted this experience to be
closely observed, and to bring intimacy to every element of the film: the
acting, the landscapes, and especially the camerawork.
The world of the Appalachian Ohio college town where the story
is set, with its lonely streets and manicured homes, imposing rocky cliffs and
dark forests, are all filtered through Claire’s slowly destabilizing mind. Her
quest to understand her shifting world after a crisis is a metaphor for
universal questions: How do we keep changing throughout our lives? How does our
own change and behavior surprise those closest to us, or even ourselves? Can we
ever really know anyone? These were the ideas that we explored through the
writing and directing of Claire in Motion.
The 411:
Claire's husband says goodbye to her in the morning telling her that he is heading out to the woods. He has been doing this lately. Just going out and living off the land. Maybe it has always been a passion or maybe it is a change of life thing but she has become use to him not coming home for a while sometimes even days. She doesn't seem too worried as she continues on her day, puts her son to sleep and eventually heads to bed herself after running outside when she hears a car and realizing it isn't him. In the morning he still hasn't come home and she knows something is not right and she needs to contact authorities. The movie is about what happens when someone disappears and the family is left behind to piece together what is learned while the investigation is going on and maybe how little they knew about their loved one (Allison grad student who may or may not have been involved with Claire's husband) and how they may have or may not have contributed to their disappearance.
Well acted, decent story but I found myself wanting to shake Claire and punch Allison.
Well acted, decent story but I found myself wanting to shake Claire and punch Allison.
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