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Article: 'Junebug': Subtle Southern Living
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- August 26, 2005
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THE "JUNEBUG" referred to in the title of director Phil Morrison's
funny-sad first feature film is not the summertime beetle so
ubiquitous in the Southern states, but the nickname of a character's
unborn child. As such, it's a perfect metaphor for what the film is
really about, which is the unseen -- but nevertheless strongly felt
-- energies that pulse inside people, and the sometimes vain hope of
establishing a connection between them.
Set in North Carolina, the story centers on the visit of a
citified dealer in outsider art to her new husband's family. The
purpose of the trip is twofold: Madeleine (Embeth Davidtz) gets to
woo a local painter (Frank Hoyt Taylor) she has been hoping to ...