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Frozen River Series: New Directors/New Films [March 26 - April 6, 2008] Director: Courtney Hunt, Country: USA, Release: 2007, Runtime: 97 In awarding Courtney Hunt the Grand Jury Prize for Drama at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, Quentin Tarantino said of her debut feature, “It put my heart in a vise and proceeded to twist that vise until the last frame.” That’s pretty significant praise from a filmmaker whose work is as hyperbolic as Hunt’s is restrained. But like her supporter, Hunt packs a wallop. Two women in upstate New York—one recently left with two sons to raise, the other a widow on the Mohawk reservation straddling the U.S./Canadian border—need money fast, and they become unlikely, uneasy and even unwilling partners in a perilous and illegal enterprise. In portraying women determined not go over the edge, Melissa Leo (Detective Howard in television’s Homicide) and Misty Upham give exquisite, hard-edged and vulnerable performances. A Sony Pictures Classics release. Wed Mar 26: 7:00pm (The Museum of Modern Art) Thu Mar 27: 6:15pm (Walter Reade Theater) Born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Courtney Hunt holds a law degree from Northeastern University. Frozen River is her feature-length debut; her short version of Frozen River was screened in the 2004 New York Film Festival.

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