Location: Spain
“Cluster Town"
Directed by Sofia Coppola
Written by Sofia Coppola
Music by Jon Brion
Produced by Francis Ford Coppola
Principal Cast:
Liv Tyler (Brenda)
Peter Sarsgaard (Matt)
Jake Gyllenhaal (Gabriel)
Susan Sarandon (Martha)
James Woods (Gabriel’s father)
Joan Allen (Gabriel’s mother)
Ellen Burstyn (Brenda’s mother)
Kirsten Dunst (Patricia)
Tagline: "Nothing can change if we don’t change in our inside”
Synopsis: Matt (Peter Sarsgaard) hasn’t found his own place yet. His strong personality doesn’t allow him to join or match at any place. The relationship with his mother is getting worst day by day. His mother Martha (Susan Sarandon), left by his father when he was a child, is always telling him that he’s a failure as his father. Matt gets fired from all the jobs he begins, he is not the perfect man for Brenda, and there is a big distance between him and his best friend Gabriel. The town seems to be increasingly small and he needs more space to breathe. Matt needs to find himself, and he thinks the best way is meeting his father, who lives in Florida.
Brenda (Liv Tyler) can’t find a job. She has studied in Georgetown but she had to return when her mother (Ellen Burstyn) gets ill before dying. She doesn’t find a job adapted for her in the town and she is tired of not being able to devote what she wants. She has to pay all the debts of her mother and now that she has saved a little of money she wants to return to her past life. She had a relation with Matt in the past and now she feels that her relation with him is almost finished, but she cannot help love him.
Gabriel (Jake Gyllenhaal) lives in a very religious and oppressive family. He has four younger sisters. His parents want him to dedicate his life to spreading the god's word. His girlfriend, Patricia (Kirsten Dunts), the preacher daughter, gets pregnant and that is a big drama in their families. He has a big discussion with his father (James Woods), who forces him to leave the house in front of the disappointed look of his mother (Joan Allen). Unfortunately Patricia kills herself the same night.
The three need to leave the town. So by chance, without knowing anything of others they do the suitcases to go away the morning after. Brenda has bought a bill for the bus, Matt will drive his own old car and Gabriel will do hitch-hiking. But the night before of the leaving they will meet by chance in the bar where they have spent most of the time together, the only place that they will miss. It’s been a long time since the three friends where all together and they spend the whole night talking. None wants to say anything but finally Gabriel confesses that he’ll leave the town in the morning. He’ll sleep in an old cabin by the river. Finally Brenda and Matt confess their intentions too.
Surprised by the chance of their thoughts they realize that they still have much to clarify between them and with others and they elaborate a last plan. They will simulate that they have gone out of the town on the following morning but they will remain hidden in the cabin. They will be useful to try to arrange the things that they don’t like of their town without being discovered, from the shade of the old cabin. They will try to change what they don’t please about themselves and their families. They will do politics, will revolutionize to the masses, they will create new illusions and dreams in the people. But they know that it won’t be forever. The three finally decide to leave the town together sharing a last trip. Gabriel will stay in New York, to be finally himself, Brenda will stay in Washington to be a politic and Matt will continue to the south to find his father. After the latter great trip it will be difficult to them to separate but they know that they cannot sacrifice their dreams for others dreams. And they know nobody will take away from them what they have lived together.
What the press would say:
A melancholic and subtle atmosphere embraces this strong film that talks about the natural changes of every human being and about the idea of a world that cannot change by itself. They know that nothing can change if we don’t change in our inside. Cluster town is about the promise of a life that never comes, the old dreams of a perfect future that don’t get real. Cluster Town talks about the creation of a small society from the beginning. The three friends represent the three big supports of any society. In Cluster Town everybody is different, none looks like anybody, everyone has different fears, secrets, faults, but all of them are joined by an invisible nexus that keep them together. The three main characters broke this nexus and try to have their own life, to get their own dream, to find their own cluster.
FYC:
Best Picture (Drama)
Best Director: Sofia Coppola
Best Original Screenplay: Sofia Coppola
Best Actress: Liv Tyler
Best Actor: Peter Sarsgaard
Best Supporting Actor: Jake Gyllenhaal
Creativity Awards
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