The Guatemalan Handshake

The Guatemalan Handshake

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Jun 22nd 2007, 3:55pm By BRO Reader Submission

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On Saturday June 23rd at 8pm, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center will present the award-winning film The Guatemalan Handshake, (2006, 96min). A hit among the underground, and winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2006 Slamdance Film Festival, director Todd Rohal’s debut feature "suggests what Jacques Tati may have done with rural America" (Variety). When a power failure occurs in a small mountain town, it sets in motion a bizarre chain of events. The sun rises sideways, a woman attends her own funeral, cars drive circles in the dirt, and Donald Turnupseed, an awkward demolition derby driver (played by musician Will Oldham, aka Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and the recent star of Old Joy) disappears. His vanishing affects the film’s eccentric characters, which includes a pack of wild boy scouts, a lactose intolerant roller rink employee, and a ten-year-old girl named Turkeylegs. Now, how could you miss that?

Photo: Will Oldham as Donald Turnupseed

Saturday June 23, 8 PM $7/general, $5/students and seniors, $4/members. Hallwalls Cinema 341 Delaware, 14202, 854-1694

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