Manchester by the Sea
A withdrawn handyman is made guardian of his teenage nephew and forced back to the town where his life came apart.
Lee Chandler is called back to his home town after his brother's death to find he has been named guardian of his nephew. The film reveals, without underlining it, the catastrophe that hollowed him out.
It is a precise portrait of guilt that cannot be metabolised and grief that finds no resolution, of a man who has decided, somewhere below the level of choice, that he does not deserve to recover. Casey Affleck won the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Details
- Kenneth Lonergan
- Film
- 2016
- United States
- English
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