Higher Ground – 3 Buckets
January 10, 2012 by Danny Baldwin
My review of Vera Farmiga’s Higher Ground was published in The Daily Trojan for its theatrical release last September. Here is a preview, followed by a link to the full piece:
For a decade, Vera Farmiga has blessed audiences with one impeccably conveyed supporting character after another — the police psychiatrist caught between two sides in The Departed, the non-committal sexpot who quietly rejuvenates George Clooney’s appetite for an honest human connection in Up in the Air and even the distraught mother who fails to accept that her adopted 9 year-old is a murderous maniac in Orphan.
Given Farmiga’s affinity for varied, challenging material, it is hardly a surprise that for her directorial debut, she selected Higher Ground, a film that presented the arduous task of balancing the enormity of a decades-spanning narrative with the intimacy of one woman’s intrinsic journey.
Read on at the Daily Trojan website (link will open in a new window).
