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Title:\u00a0Middle of Nowhere<\/strong><\/p>\n

Director: Ava DuVernay<\/strong><\/p>\n

Starring: Emayatzy Corinealdi, Omari Hardwick, David Oyelowo, Edwina Findley, Lorraine Toussaint, Sharon Lawrence<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Middle of Nowhere” may have a nondescript title, but the skill of its\u00a0staging\u00a0is anything but pedestrian. An intimate,\u00a0confidently directed\u00a0and superbly acted humanistic drama that is utterly at home in the subtle push-and-pull of long-standing family arguments and tensions, the Los Angeles-set film casts a long\u00a0spell — not unlike the recent “For Ellen” — through\u00a0its beguiling maintainence of melancholic mood.<\/p>\n

Written and directed by publicist-turned-filmmaker\u00a0Ava DuVernay, and released via\u00a0a distributor, African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement, that she helped co-found, “Middle of Nowhere” focuses on Ruby (Emayatzy Corinealdi), a bright medical student who puts her dreams on hold and suspends her career\u00a0when her husband Derek (Omari Hardwick) lands in prison — hopeful that he can be released early for good behavior, after five years of “good time.”<\/p>\n

Four years later, as an important\u00a0parole hearing looms, Derek seems distant, and more than a little ambivalent about a return to domestic normalcy, leading Ruby, now a nurse,\u00a0to wonder whether her many sacrifices have been in vain. Against the backdrop of a pair of complicated relationships — with her sister Rosie (Edwina Findley), a single mother, and their own mom Ruth (Lorraine Toussaint) — Ruby is forced to stare past some of the walls she constructed to convince herself of her marriage’s solidity. She also meets Brian (David Oyelowo), a bus driver who seemingly offers her a stability and presence that Derek cannot.<\/p>\n

DuVernay picked up Best Director honors at the Sundance Film Festival for the movie, and it’s easy to see why. The film’s plotting is familiar, and a couple of its gambits tired (the moment where the phone call of a daughter is briefly mistaken for that of another\u00a0love interest), but there’s a lyrical\u00a0quality to the direction, which doesn’t attempt to distill Ruby’s contradictory emotions into neatly parceled, clear and direct\u00a0motivations.<\/p>\n

Much of the film, DuVernay’s second,\u00a0is naturalistic in its own way, but cinematographer Bradford Young shoots in a muted fashion that underscores the film’s melancholic, deeply interior vibe while not calling attention to itself. Likewise, the production design is spare. The result is a movie that is earnest without being cornpone, slight without being simple, and beautiful without being overly adorned.<\/p>\n

Corinealdi’s performance, an utter\u00a0revelation,\u00a0has a lot to do with this connection.\u00a0She headlines a cast who captures, in smart, affecting and concise strokes, the inner restlessness and not easily articulated regret of characters fumbling toward an emotional equilibrium. “Middle of Nowhere” is\u00a0an honest and moving account of some of the tough decisions that face those left on the outside when a loved one goes to prison — and\u00a0when the not-yet-extinguished dreams of\u00a0a life they wanted are commingled with\u00a0a sense of shame\u00a0over what their life actually is.<\/p>\n

Technical: A-<\/strong><\/p>\n

Acting: A<\/strong><\/p>\n

Story: B-<\/strong><\/p>\n

Overall: B+<\/strong><\/p>\n

Written by: Brent Simon<\/strong><\/p>\n

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