When asked where his passion for cinema comes from, Sean Durkin gives the same answer as most directors: films he saw as a child.
“
The Goonies, Back to the Future, Beetlejuice
and
The Adventures of Jack Burton in the Claws of the Mandarin
were playing in a loop in my VCR,”
remembers the forty-year-old from Los Angeles.
Madeleines for any Western kid from the 1980s. But, at 13, a film changed his life and his vision of the world:
Shining
.
Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Stephen King's novel imprints the retina of the teenager, just returned to the United States after a childhood in England.
For anyone who has seen Durkin's two excellent first features, his fascination with the ghosts of the Overlook Hotel is not entirely a surprise.
And the shadow of Jack Torrance (Nicholson), a frustrated writer, alcoholic husband and evil father ready to murder his family, a threat that hangs over his cinema.
In
Martha Marcy…
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