Country: USA
Year: 2004
Duration: 93\'
William Keane is desperately searching for his six-year-old daughter, who he lost at the bus terminal. The man obviously suffers from mental problems and no one can understand if his story is true or if it is his way of externalizing his need for affection. Six months later, William has to come to terms with reality and accept the fact that he no longer has a daughter. He meets Kira, a young unwedded mother, and begins to go out with her on a steady basis without ever telling her about his past.
"Clean, Shaven, too, is the story of a person who suffers from schizophrenia. But what I wanted to do with that film was let the audience experience the symptoms of schizophrenia, to let them imagine what it must be like to live that way. Keane, on the other hand, is an attempt to examine how a person reacts to the loss of a child. It's the exploration of that type of pain and how to overcome it, if that's possible. Personally, I don't think it's possible to come to terms with it." (L. Kerrigan)
Biography
film director
Lodge Kerrigan
Lodge Kerrigan
(New York,
1964), one of the leaders
in American independent cinema, studied Philosophy at Columbia
University and
Cinema at New York University. He got his start in cinema first as a
cameraman
and later directing videoclips and commercials. He debuted in
feature-length
films in 1994 with the independent film Clean, Shaven,
the story of a man suffering from
schizophrenia who tries to get back his daughter, who has been given in
custody
to another family. The film, which was presented at Cannes in the
section Un
Certain Regard, won both critical and box office success. His
next films
were Claire Dolan (1998) with Vincent
D'Onofrio and Katrin Cartlidge in
the role of a prostitute, and In God's Hands (2002).
This film, starring
Peter Sarsgaard and produced by Steven Soderbergh, was never released
due to a
laboratory accident that occurred during processing of the negative.
Soderbergh
also produced Kerrigan's most recent film, Keane (2004),
which was shown
at Cannes in the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, in which the
director once more
studies the universe of a man with mental problems, who this time is
tormented
by the kidnapping of his young daughter.
FILMOGRAFIA
Clean, Shaven (1993), Claire
Dolan (1998), Keane
(2004).