![]() Redford appeared as an uncredited basketball player in Tall Story starring Fonda and Anthony Perkins. It marked the fourth collaboration between Fonda and Redford, having previously starred in The Chase, Barefoot in the Park, and The Electric Horseman although they were in five films together. It had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on September 1, 2017. ![]() The film stars Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Matthias Schoenaerts, and Judy Greer. It is based on the novel of same name by Kent Haruf. “Our Souls at Night” is a parting gift from the author, a reminder of how profoundly we will miss Holt and its people, and Kent Haruf’s extraordinary writing.Our Souls at Night is a 2017 American romantic drama film directed by Ritesh Batra and written by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. He took the physical details from Holt, the place names of the streets and what the country looks like and the location of things, but it’s not his town. He couldn’t imagine two old ranchers taking in a pregnant girl, Louis says. “The one with the old man dying and the preacher?” “Did you see they’re going to do that last book about Holt County?” Addie asks. The book is filled with dry remarks, and Haruf himself adds a bit of humor by placing himself and his previous books in the story:Īddie and Louis talk about the coming season at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Both Addie and Louis are strong, if flawed in little ways. It is the characters who populate the Great Plains town of Holt who make the writing profound. Like Haruf’s other works, “Our Souls at Night” is a simple story, told in a spartan style. ![]() A reputation like that would just about follow you anywhere.” I wouldn’t want to get the name of a liar and a prevaricator in a little town the size of this one. “It goes right in your ears and out your mouth. “One of the things I always hear is how any story is safe with you,” Louis replies. At the bakery, a man tells Louis he wishes he had his energy “to stay out all night and then still have enough left over to function the day after.” Holt, of course, is a small town, and the pair become a source of gossip. They continue, and when they are both comfortable with the “affair,” Addie tells Louis he might as well leave his pajamas at her house. One night soon afterward, he showers and shaves, then sneaks down the alley, his pajamas in a paper bag, and the two spend the night in bed, talking, sleeping, but not touching. She’ll sleep better with a man beside her, she tells him, someone to talk to in the dark, someone to wake up with. She’s not interested in marriage, nor even sex. ![]() Although “Our Souls at Night” is perhaps half the length of Haruf’s other works, it still packs punch.Īddie, a widow of 70, approaches her widower neighbor, Louis, and asks if he’d like to spend nights with her. Instead it’s a lagniappe, a parting gift to readers, filled with strong characters and written in the author’s spare, evocative style. “Our Souls at Night” hasn’t the magnitude of Haruf’s previous novels. He was Colorado’s finest novelist, the author of “Plainsong” and “Eventide” and three other works of fiction set in Holt, a town he created on Colorado’s Eastern Plains. Kent Haruf’s death last year was a loss not only to Colorado but to the entire literary world. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu
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