Higher Ground trailer

It's been difficult to avoid watching the trailer of The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn, for it's been tediously ubiquitous in the blogosphere during the last couple of weeks. I don't intend to see the film any time soon for many reasons, but to expose them here would be an attempt at argumentative elaboration of what can essentially be summed up in two words: performance capture.
So if you really want to see the trailer of Steven Spielberg's latest prank, I'm sorry, but you'll have to look for it somewhere else.
Instead, however, I'll offer up the trailer of actress Vera Farmiga's directorial debut Higher Ground, which looks thousand times more interesting (and real) than the Tintin thing. I'm really looking forward to seeing Farmiga's first directorial effort. I first caught sight of her in the solid, if unnecessary, remake of the classic The Manchurian Candidate. She then went on to give a terrific performance in the couple of scenes she shared with Jude Law in the underrated Breaking and Entering before landing the breakthrough role of her career in Martin Scorsese's The Departed, where she managed to shine among an impressive all-male cast. Since then, she has established herself as one of the strongest female personalities on screen, maybe more than ever in her Oscar-nominated turn as a woman able to dump George Clooney without batting an eyelash in Up in the Air.

Higher Ground also features John Hawkes, who gave one of last year's best performances in Winter's Bone. Too many reasons to ignore this film.