When Steven Soderbergh takes a filmmaker under his wing and aegis and tries to give him a little lift, that’s bound to mean that the filmmaker is exciting and worth the watch. Before they broke out big, Soderbergh shouted out filmmakers like pre- “Moonlight” Barry Jenkins and Amy Seimetz. Another filmmaker Soderbergh was an early champion of was Lodge Kerrigan, the filmmaker behind the excellent debut “Clean, Shaven,” and more recently “The Girlfriend Experience” on Starz. Kerrigan’s gripping second film was “Keane,” which made its 2004 debut at the Telluride Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, the New York Film Festival. The film was so talked about it played at the Cannes Film Festival in 2005 the next year—a very rare move for Cannes to make. In other words, the cineastes who program these world-renowned festivals were all deeply impressed by “Keane.”
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The film also introduced much of the world to Damian Lewis long before his breakout performance in “Homeland” in 2011. The film also stars Amy Ryan, Abigail Breslin and centers on a mentally disturbed man trying to come to terms with the abduction of his daughter several months earlier and the relationship he develops with a young girl and her mother.
Soderbergh came on to the film as an executive producer back in the day, and now, the film is getting a 4k Restoration release via Grasshopper Films, which starts August 19 at Film At Lincoln Center, with a national rollout to follow. Here’s the official synopsis:
William Keane (Damian Lewis) is barely able to cope. It has been six months since his six-year-old daughter was abducted from New York City’s Port Authority Bus Terminal while traveling with him. Repeatedly drawn to the site of the abduction, Keane wanders the bus station, compulsively replaying the events of that fateful day, as if hoping to change the outcome. One day he meets a financially strapped woman, Lynn Bedik (Amy Ryan), and her seven-year-old daughter, Kira (Abigail Breslin), at a transient hotel. Keane becomes increasingly attached to Kira and, in a harrowing climax, uses her in an attempt to fill the void left by his daughter’s disappearance.
Watch the new trailer for “Keane” below, and we’ll remind you that, after 4k theatrical releases like this, it usually means, a nice Blu-Ray will follow, so keep an eye on what Grasshopper does after this theatrical run.