Life and Nothing More (2018)

Wow. Life and Nothing More is a quiet, brilliant little film. It's a slice-of-life drama with a powerful emotional effect as we spend more and more time with the two main characters. It's about precarity in the Southern U.S. and it's also a very personal story about the relationship between a mother and her teenage son. I really, really liked this.

My old pal Hudson Meeks has a small role in the movie, which was a nice surprise. And I also managed to meet the director, Antonio Méndez Esparza, last Thursday on campus. He currently teaches at the film school here – which I didn't know before I saw the movie – and he's a lovely guy. We talked about Sorrentino and Malick and the fact that he didn't like Guardians of the Galaxy.