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...lower common room of Adams House on Thursday night, a quiet, thoughtful group of students and other members of the Cambridge community gathered to hear award-winning poet Maurice Manning read from his latest work, A Compilation for Owls: Being the Commonplace Book of D.Boone, Long Hunter, Black Woodsman & Co. The Yale Younger Poet (2002) and professor of English at Indiana University seemed awestruck that such a large crowd had gathered on his behalf...
From those potentially explosive materials, director and co-scriptwriter (with Steven Fechter, who wrote the play) Nicole Kassell has fashioned a cool, minimalist and absolutely terrific little film called The Woodsman, in which Bacon, that most believable (and underappreciated) actor, struggles almost silently--certainly without melodramatic fervor--against the suspicious world, against his ever present demons. Sedgwick is equally good as the patient but no-nonsense woman trying to see him as he now is--basically a good man--instead of what he once...
...Woodsman is a great film...
Creator Nicole Kassell, making her feature writing and directing debut, delivers a disturbing, provocative tour-de-force that delves deeply into one man’s psyche. Starring Kevin Bacon as Walter, a convict just released from prison after serving a twelve-year sentence for molesting adolescent girls, The Woodsman provides a probing glimpse into the life of a deeply disturbed man struggling to vanquish his demons...
...Woodsman is unique among films released so far in 2004 in that its protagonist is not a hero in the purest sense of the word, and yet he is still to be admired, even if he is also abhorred. Eschewing stereotyping for true character development, Kassell forces her audience to walk a fine line between sympathy and disgust. Leaving the theater, viewers must be content to accept both their repulsion and their admiration for Walter. Often disturbing, sometimes difficult to watch, but always stimulating and emotionally charged, The Woodsman is a powerful and staggering work...