![]() They love their children, they love each other, they love their farm, and they love their life on the farm, which is the bedrock of their lives, not easily overturned or given up. Pardue and Miller evince multiple layers as the parents. Young actress Peyton Kennedy captures her character's wide-eyed innocence, as well as the strength of her personality. Gitty may be naive and inexperienced, but she is not stupid she's also more than capable of making her own moral choices. ![]() So a trip to a local fairground at night is both magical and mysterious, as Gitty enjoys playtime and cotton candy, while wondering why her father is meeting with a dark-eyed woman named Vera (Zuleikha Robinson), who seems to have swept in from one of Gitty's puzzling fantasies. We see what she can see and we hear what she can hear. Hamilton sets herself and the film apart early on, though, because the story is presented from Gitty's perspective. As the camera sweeps through the cornfields and the endless sky beckons above during the opening reels of American Fable, it's easy to spot Malick's influence. ![]() Writer/director Anne Hamilton is a protégé of Terrence Malick and spent a year as an intern on Malicks's The Tree of Life before making her first short film. Gitty backs away, and returns home, but her curiosity has been piqued. He begs for her help, while urging her to not tell anyone what she has found. Curious, she investigates, and discovers that a man in business clothing is, for some reason, locked in the silo. One day, Gitty wanders near a silo on a remote part of their farm and is startled to hear a voice. She has a special relationship with her beloved father, as young girls often do, and that sustains her through any times of troubling thoughts. He's a bully to his younger sister, meaner than might be expected, but Gitty can shake that off as she basks in the love of her parents. ![]() Her father Abe (Kip Pardue) and her mother Sarah (Marci Miller) share a special love and they plainly love their children, not only Gitty but also the older, teenage Martin (Gavin MacIntosh). She loves to run through endless acres of cornfields and play with neighboring kids and soak in the fresh air and dream up simple fantasies of a horse and its rider. In American Fable, Gitty, 11, is a guileless dreamer who has always lived with her family on their farm. Some did whatever they could to hold onto their property and survive. They were losing their farms, their homes, their livelihoods. if you were 11 years old.īut for hundreds of farmers across the heartland of the U.S.A., times were desperate. In 1982, Reagan's America looked pretty darn convincing. ![]()
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