{"id":27426,"date":"2024-04-25T09:32:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T13:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/nowhere-special-review-old-bonds-new-family\/25\/04\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-04-25T09:32:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T13:32:19","slug":"nowhere-special-review-old-bonds-new-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/nowhere-special-review-old-bonds-new-family\/25\/04\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Nowhere Special\u2019 Review: Old Bonds, New Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cNowhere Special\u201d is an unusual, and unusually understated, parental tear-jerker in which a father prepares for the loss of his young son. The son isn\u2019t going anywhere. But the father, a single dad, is dying, of an unspecified disease, and he\u2019s at first eager, then later a little desperate, to get his boy placed with the right adoptive family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The picture was written and directed by Uberto Pasolini, the Italian-born filmmaker who was the producer of the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1997\/08\/13\/movies\/jobless-broke-men-you-can-always-strip.html\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">1997 crowd-pleaser \u201cThe Full Monty.\u201d<\/a> Although he shares a surname with the acclaimed director Pier Paolo Pasolini, Uberto is in fact a nephew of the neorealist cinema giant Luchino Visconti. Pasolini doesn\u2019t seem directly influenced by his actual relative or his namesake. But his movie does have a style: slow, quiet, measured. It takes its time before bringing the emotional hammer down.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Set and shot in Northern Ireland, the film focuses on a window cleaner, John (James Norton), the loving father to a very cute but often sulky 4-year-old, Michael (Daniel Lamont). We never see John at a doctor\u2019s office, but we get a look at his packed medicine cabinet and we see him getting more ashen as the picture goes on. One location he does spend a lot of time in is a child placement agency, whose staffers escort him to speak with approved-to-adopt candidates. There are childless couples, intimidatingly big families and single aspiring parents to consider. John resists putting a \u201cmemory box\u201d together for his boy. \u201cI don\u2019t want him to understand death,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After being admonished by a snotty rich client because of slow work, John, taking the adage \u201cyou only live once\u201d to heart, eggs the fellow\u2019s house. It\u2019s one of the few moments when the movie deigns to deliver a conventional satisfaction. But the mostly low-key mode of \u201cNowhere Special\u201d is the right one. Norton is spectacular, but little Lamont delivers one of those uncanny performances that doesn\u2019t seem like acting, and makes you feel for the kid almost as much as his onscreen parent does.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Nowhere Special<\/strong><br \/>Not Rated. Running time: 1 hour 36 minutes. 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