Digging For Fire2015
Digging For Fire (2015)
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Critic Consensus: Digging for Fire finds director/co-writer Joe Swanberg working from a familiar palette, but in ways that suggest he's taking new and exciting strides as a filmmaker.
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Cast
as Tim
as Lee
as Ben
as Alicia
as Max
as Ray
as Bob
as Squiggy
as Pop Pop
as Phil
as Grandma
as Yoga Couple
as Yoga Couple
as Woman on Beach
as Billy T.
as BB Gun Friend
as Paul
as Cashier
as Jude
as Adam
as Neighbor
as Uber Driver #1
as Squiggy and Bob's Daughter
as Squiggy and Bob's Son
as Lucy
as Uber Driver #2
as Waiter
as Hostess
as Bartender
as Brian
as Restaurant Patron
as Restaurant Patron
as Restaurant Patron
as Restaurant Patron
as Restaurant Patron
as Restaurant Patron
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The size of that ensemble and Swanberg's particular way of sorta hazily drifting from one half-overheard conversation to the next gives the picture a Robert Altman vibe that's never really been present in his work before.
The movie has been dedicated to Paul Mazursky, the great radiologist of American social interplay who died last year. But Swanberg is still murmuring where Mazursky could speechify, gesticulate, and shout, sometimes in the same sequence.
Conversations drift and weave, as do the people having them. Narcissistic melancholy dukes it out with beer-and-pot-stoked merriment. There is longing. There is foolhardiness.
While you're watching it, "Digging for Fire" may feel slight or tentative, but its cumulative impact is entrancing. Few films about a marital rift make so much of what seems so little.
While it has its charms, Swanberg is tilling soil here that has been churned since humanity began, and he doesn't come up with very much that's new.
Digging for Fire fails its title's own promise: It has the capacity for startling insight and artistry, but mostly it's just a toe listlessly pushing dirt around.
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Digging For Fire Quotes
| Tim: | Hey Lee, look what I found on the hill. |
| Lee: | I'm guessing it's an animal bone. |
| Tim: | And some other animal shot it? |
| Alicia: | I don't even know you. |
| Ben: | That's very liberating. |