BULLHEAD

This film distributed by our very own Alamo Drafthouse has received well deserved hoopla.  Today Abe and I headed over to Alamo S.Lamar to check it out ourselves.  The nomination for best foreign film (Belgium) and best screenplay is deserved.  Acting by Matthias Schoenhaerts is breathtaking and direction by Michael Roskam is good.   Editing could have been a little tighter as there were confusing moments throughout (could be my addled brain).  This story of revenge following a horrific trauma in childhood; mafia cattle gangsters in Belgium; and bovine steroid use brings us a world that one doesn't regularly encounter.  And once again the film industry in Austin (Drafthouse Cinemas) successfully broadens our views by finding unusual, independent, global films to bring to the screen.  Abe loved this film and it's portrayal of a severely damaged man.  Don't miss this.  It's playing all over now.