Essential Cinema: Trouble & Desire: Hal Hartley’s Long Island Trilogy and Early Shorts

SIMPLE MEN

Directed by Hal Hartley

USA, 1992, 1h 45min, 35mm

Essential Cinema  Trouble & Desire: Hal Hartley’s Long Island Trilogy and Early Shorts

There are no current or future screenings planned for this film.

“Both at one with his previous work and a significant step beyond it, Hal Hartley’s SIMPLE MEN is a beautifully realized American art film.”
—Variety

Brothers Dennis (Bill Sage) and Bill (Robert John Burke) couldn’t be more different. One is a quietly handsome and bookish college student, the other a rugged ladies’ man and thief. In search of their long-lost father, they find not only each other, but themselves — and two women. Co-starring Elina Löwensohn, Martin Donovan, and Karen Sillas. In 35mm.

 

35mm print from the Chicago Film Society. 

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