Lorelei (2020)

Jack and I liked this indie drama about an ex-con biker and the woman he left behind in their small American town. Pablo Schreiber and Jena Malone are very good in the feature debut of director/writer Sabrina Doyle. The three children––Chancellor Perry, Amelia Borgerding, and Parker Pascoe-Sheppard––novice actors all, are terrific as well. Apparently Malone, herself a former child actor, helped the kids a lot on set. The name Lorelei is often thought to represent a mermaid enchantress, and that theme becomes clearer in the third act.

The music by Jeff Russo can be streamed on Apple Music and here is a list of songs.

As a member of Film Independent, I get "For Your Consideration" emails which I read occasionally, and this was in one of them. Shot and cast (except for Schreiber and Malone) in Oregon except the aptly named Dive Bar in Sacramento, it has five festival wins and 21 nominations, last I checked.

After I wrote about Schreiber in Happythankyoumoreplease he played Pornstache in nineteen episodes of Orange Is the New Black, among his credits, and Malone was last blogged for The Public. Russo has scored a handful of features and a ton of TV series.

Rotten Tomatoes' critics swim right along, averaging 89%, while its audiences are slightly less buoyant at 79.

We rented it on iTunes October 20.