![]() ![]() ![]() While the story may not pay off for all viewers, it’s still a striking, hypnotic representation of a point of view and a part of America that is often overlooked. I would be hesitant to call American Fable one of the best films of the year, but it is one of those films that you come away from in anticipation of what the director will accomplish in future endeavors. American Fable is the rare young girl’s coming-of-age film that doesn’t involve romance, where the growing up comes from gaining a greater understanding of the world around her and the many-faceted people who inhabit it. City meeting country is a common motif in horror films, but American Fable isn’t quite a horror, and writer-director Anne Hamilton manages to create a moody, enigmatic, and mysterious world that blends fairy tale with 1980s rural America. Then she comes upon a man in business attire, imprisoned in an abandoned silo on the family’s ailing farm. Gitty is the eleven year old protagonist of this film, and her life is pretty inauspicious and carefree, despite the palpable tension within her family. Yes, there is a faun in American Fable (not a spoiler, you can see it in the trailer and the movie’s poster), and the story is told from the point of view of a young girl, but don’t be too quick to write it off as a Guilllermo del Toro knockoff. ![]()
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