SXSW Presents: DADDY LONGLEGS

Rated NR; 100min; Director:Josh and Benny Safdie  

Location: Alamo Downtown

Official Selection of 2009 Cannes Film Festival and 2010 Sundance Film Festival

"Featuring some of the most unhinged parenting decisions ever made, brothers Josh and Benny Safdie's semiautobiographical Daddy Longlegs is a moving, often hilarious, oddly buoyant tribute to a father who knows - and does - worst...[the film] succeeds by assembling a superb cast of weirdos orbiting around a main character, who, though profoundly flawed, is still affectionately drawn."
-Melissa Anderson, Artforum

"This is easily the most provocative film I've seen in ages, one that pushed me way out of my comfort zone and yet kept me spellbound throughout."
-Marshall Fine, The Huffington Post

"Ronald Bronstein is among the most self-unsparing and inspired [actors], and his performance in the movie is a treasure."
-Richard Brody, New Yorker

This new film by brothers/writers/directors Josh and Benny Safdie (THE PLEASURE OF BEING ROBBED) is an unflinching portrait of a well-meaning but destructive father who is enjoying and spoiling his two-week visitation time. Played by filmmaker Ronald Bronstein (whose underground masterpiece FROWNLAND is probably the greatest film you haven't seen), this father is one of the most true and brutal characters in recent celluloid memory.

Filmed on a low-budget and in a Cassavetes camera style, DADDY LONGLEGS is a new kind of a film with a sense of urgency and realism reminiscent of the impulses of the French New Wave. The Safdie brothers are able to capture a dream-like portrait of New York, endlessly nostalgic and yet somehow also of our time. This is not to be missed. (Daniel Metz)

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Kid Policy: 18 and up; Children 6 and up will be allowed only with a parent or guardian. No children under the age of 6 will be allowed.

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