It has been quite a while since we were graced with a film by Tony Kaye, the director of American History X, almost three years in fact. His latest feature, titled Detachment, is about a substitute teacher who avoids emotional connections with those around him but somehow gets sucked into connecting with his students since everyone in the school has grown so apathetic.
I saw the film nearly a year ago at a test screening and was floored by how good it was (though the final cut could be very different). It also knocked all the positive life out of me and gave me almost no hope for the future, but either way it was a quality flick nontheless.
Besides having a qualified director at the helm, the movie has a star studded cast featuring Adrien Brody, Marcia Gay Harden, Christina Hendricks, William Petersen, Bryan Cranston, Tim Blake Nelson, Lucy Liu, Blythe Danner, James Caan, and newcomers Sami Gayle and Betty Kaye
Like the trailer suggests, this film is Adrien Brody’s finest performance since The Pianist so trust me when I say this is good. Check out the trailer and synopsis below and be sure to share your thought in the comments section.
Director Tony Kaye’s (AMERICAN HISTORY X) long-awaited film DETACHMENT stars Academy Award® winner Adrien Brody as Henry Barthes, a substitute teacher who conveniently avoids any emotional connections by never staying anywhere long enough to form a bond with either his students or colleagues. A lost soul grappling with a troubled past, Henry finds himself at a public school where an apathetic student body has created a frustrated, burned-out administration. Inadvertently becoming a role model to his students, while also bonding with a runaway teen who is just as lost as he is, Henry finds that he’s not alone in a life and death struggle to find beauty in a seemingly vicious and loveless world.
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