A first rate character actor gets to really strut his stuff in a downbeat hustler drama? That character actor being the great Dennis Farina. Sign me up. Throw in Gary Cole on support duty bonus! Bowing at the Tribeca Film Festival, The Last Rites of Joe May promises to be a solid and interesting film (see also Small Town Murder Songs with Peter Stormare.) Here, I dig the interesting way they’ve structured to the trailer with all those Ken Burns zooms and clean audio, it’s tangentially reminiscent modern La Jetee and I like it.
Small-time Chicago hustler Joe May always felt like a great destiny awaited him, but with his health ailing and his age advancing, he’s never looked more like a bum. Broke and evicted, he’s taken in by a troubled young mother and daughter, in whom he finds one last shot to be a hero.
The trailer is tucked under the seat.
