| Indie Film's Ultra-Realist Overdose |
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| Written by Andrew O'Hehir in Salon | |
| Wednesday, 01 October 2008 | |
 Lance Hammer's film Ballast, a critical favorite earlier this year at Sundance, begins with a remarkable shot, one of those shots that stick with you long after the rest of the movie has become a jumbled memory. Sundance critics went wild for the lo-fi, wide-screen, Mississippi bleakness of Ballast. Andrew O'Hehir looks at auteurs' current infatuation with neorealism and dissects the trend's potential ramifications.
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