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"Take Shelter"U.S. Dramatic competition**If you stretched a "Twilight Zone" episode to two hours by adding endless dramatic pauses to every scene, you'd get this quasi-apocalyptic drama. Working-class Curtis (Michael Shannon) starts having nightmares in which he sees oily rain and zombie-like neighbors. Is he having visions of the end times? Or is he showing signs of schizophrenia, like his mother (Kathy Baker)? Curtis tries to tough out his problem, not confiding in his loving wife (Jessica Chastain), who starts to wonder if he's losing it. Writer-director Jeff Nichols ("Shotgun Stories") sets a brooding, somber tone, but lets scenes run on too long to keep the tension going. Shannon, playing a normal guy for once, is solid.
"Take Shelter" screens again at: Tuesday, Jan. 25, at 5:30 p.m. at the Library Center Theatre, Park City; Wednesday, Jan. 26, 9:45 p.m. at the Broadway Centre Cinema V, Salt Lake City; Thursday, Jan. 27, 8:45 p.m. at the Library Center Theatre, Park City; Friday, Jan. 28, at 9 p.m. at the Redstone Cinema 8, Park City.
- Sean P. Means