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"Lovesong"
U.S. Dramatic Competition
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Friendship takes some dramatic turns in "Lovesong," a movie that finds its emotional strength in its delicacy. Sara (Riley Keough) finds herself raising her three-year-old daughter Jessie alone, while her husband is away on business. When Mindy (Jena Malone), her best friend from college, comes to visit, Sara packs Jessie into the car for an impromptu road trip in the Poconos. On the road, when Jessie's asleep, the women talk and get drunk — and one thing leads to another. Flash-forward three years, and Sara and Jessie are visiting Nashville for Mindy's wedding, with old feelings still lingering between the two. Writer-director So Yong Kim ("In Between Days," "For Ellen") creates a luminously beautiful movie, applying a painterly eye and an ear for the silences between people. Kim also draws solid, authentic performances from Keough, Malone and from her own daughters (who play Jessie at ages three and six).
— Sean P. Means
"Lovesong" screens again in the 2016 Sundance Film Festival: Tuesday, 8:30 p.m., Prospector Square Theatre, Park City; Wednesday, 11:30 a.m., Egyptian Theatre; Thursday, 9:30 p.m., Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, Salt Lake City; Saturday, 9:30 a.m., The MARC, Park City.