{"id":7600,"date":"2013-10-02T10:27:11","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T17:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forallevents.com\/reviews\/?p=7600"},"modified":"2013-10-02T10:41:19","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T17:41:19","slug":"the-retrieval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forallevents.com\/reviews\/the-retrieval\/","title":{"rendered":"The Retrieval"},"content":{"rendered":"[rating=9]\n

Drama\u00a0|\u00a0History\u00a0|\u00a0Western,\u00a0<\/strong>US, 2013,\u00a0English,\u00a092 minutes, color<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nSet during the Civil War, we follow 13-year-old Will, a fatherless black boy who has taken up with a bounty hunter gang. Gang leader Burrell\u00a0sends Will on a risky mission to retrieve Nate, a wanted black man with a lucrative bounty on his head. To ensure Will’s return with Nate, Burrell threatens the boy with death if he doesn’t bring back his quarry.\u00a0Will and his fellow gang member Marcus (another black man) find Nate digging graves in a Union graveyard and convince their unwitting prey to follow them back to Burrell’s gang, under the ruse that they’re leading him to see his dying brother. Along the way, the initially aloof Nate and Will begin to bond,\u00a0developing an unexpected surrogate father-son relationship.\u00a0As unforeseen events complicate the journey and Will grows closer to Nate, he is consumed by a wearying decision and a moral dilemma: Should he deliver Nate to the gang, or tell him the truth and risk death if the gang finds out he let Nate go?<\/p>\n

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contributors<\/span><\/strong>
\n<\/strong>director<\/strong>\u00a0Chris Eska
\ncast<\/strong>\u00a0Tishuan Scott,\u00a0Ashton Sanders,\u00a0Keston John,\u00a0Bill Oberst Jr.,\u00a0Christine Horn,\u00a0Alfonso Freeman
\nproducers<\/strong>\u00a0Jacob Esquivel,\u00a0Jason Wehling
\nscreenwriter<\/strong>\u00a0Chris Eska
\ncinematographer<\/strong>\u00a0Yasu Tanida
\neditor<\/strong>\u00a0Chris Eska<\/p>\n

summary review<\/span><\/strong>
\nAn outstanding, satisfying film. Visually beautiful, thematically complex and poetic, it builds to an inevitable tragic and sorrowful\u00a0d\u00e9nouement\u200e but ends with a sliver of hope for the future. Lingers in the mind.<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bJqhzbTJ7kE<\/p>\n

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\nThe Retrieval<\/p>\n

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