Issue 8
Notebook

James Gray. Family Cobweb.

José David Cáceres Tapia
Miradas de Cine
Bio

Published 2009-07-01

Keywords

  • thriller and its fringes,
  • tragedy,
  • revision of past cinema,
  • family rites,
  • estrangement,
  • ancestral fears
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Abstract

Of the four feature films shot so far by James Gray (New York, 1969), the first three of them, Little Odessa (1994), The Yards (2000) and We Own the Night (2007), belong to the thriller genre, where the filmmaker’s trajectory has been one of vibrant emotional intensity and complex formal structure which articulates an impressive vision of the fight between individual and family.