SOFT IN THE HEAD
SOFT IN THE HEAD
Nathan Silver, 2015
Catalog No.: FTF-149
Length, 71 minutes
Thrown out of her New York City apartment, Natalia, a 25-year-old hot mess, relies on the kindness of friends and strangers. Seemingly unaware of the havoc she wreaks, she skips from one place to another, including her best friend's, where she crashes a holiday meal and seduces the best friend's socially inept brother. Natalia ends up staying at a shelter run by genuinely good Maury, who takes an interest in making her life better -- but life is not that simple, and tragedy ensues. With a menagerie of New York characters, set against the backdrop of a homeless shelter, a religious household, and the cacophonous streets of New York, Soft in the Head is a look at how easy it is to lose one's head in the big city, particularly for those already lost.
Directed by Nathan Silver
Written by Kia Davis, Nathan Silver, Cody Stokes
Produced by Nathan Silver, Lyn Truong
Cinematography by Cody Stokes
Starring: Sheila Etxeberría, Ed Ryan, Carl Kranz, Melanie J. Scheiner, Theodore Bouloukos, Bruce Smolanoff, Robert Williams-Taylor, Mark Gotbaum, Jayson Simba, Nick Korbee, Nechama Kessler, Moshe Kessler, Cindy Silver, and Harvey Silver
Festivals: Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, Vancouver International Film Festival, Göteborg Film Festival, Sarasota Film Festival, Viennale, Brooklyn Film Festival, Boston Independent Film Festival
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"Nathan Silver's raucous, disturbing new film is a shrewdly conceived yet emotionally unhinged blend of uproarious situations and devastating outcomes”
- Richard Brody, The New Yorker
"The movie impresses, maintaining a sense of anxiety through tight shots and a sound design.”
-Ben Kenigsberg, The New York Times
"SOFT IN THE HEAD confirms Silver’s talent and his status as one of the most interesting emerging directors in U.S. indie film”
-Nick Dawson, Filmmaker Magazine
"The sensation is at once maddening and, for its daredevil embrace of naturalism, absolutely thrilling.”
-Steve Dollar, The Wall Street Journal
"A riveting NYC-set drama”
-Aaron Hillis, IndieWIRE
"John Cassavetes-like slice of lowlife”
-Ty Burr, The Boston Globe
"Silver does something like deconstructing love to the bones only to reconstruct it again, unpredictably and powerfully, at the end of the film"
-Cinema Scope
"Another noteworthy film from Nathan Silver, whose cinema of discomfort is a welcome aside in the realm of independent cinema”
-Nicholas Bell, IonCinema
"Surprising, challenging, and never less than thrilling.”
-Calum Marsh, Village Voice