Philip Ettinger, Cosmo Jarvis and Lili Taylor star in 'The Evening Hour,' a moving drama about opioid addiction in Appalachia.
Appalachian woes as a consequence of the opioid crisis have become a tired trope in stories about the region, but in “The Evening Hour,” filmmaker Braden King’s story of a compassionate man doing bad things for good reasons, nuance is the target. Directing a script adapted by Elizabeth Palmore from Carter Sickels’ novel, King’s touching, if muddled, drama succeeds at dignifying a subset of this country’s working class.
Heartland hero Cole is everything to everyone. For his family he’s the provider, for addicts their dealer, a reliable worker at a nursing home, and for a few close loved ones their last chance at redemption. Skipping from one home to the next, buying prescription meds from the elderly to resell or visiting grandma’s home, his interactions paint frames of a community surviving on desperate measures.
Spirituality runs deep here, in recited bible verses and cinematographer Declan Quinn’s sun-drenched vistas of the mountainous terrain. The small-town quaintness acts as a contrasting backdrop to a drug-related dispute between a local kingpin and Cole’s once-best friend Terry , back in town stirring up trouble that soon smears others.King’s use of preexisting music always sounds adroitly positioned to heightened poignancy sans ham-fisted sentimentality.
A fireside conversation between the former pals rekindling their unspecified bond is charged with unexpected, masculine tenderness. This corner of the expansive ballad of Cole in Appalachia merited more screen time for their indelible history to be unpacked. Such truthful scenes validate King’s directorial intuitiveness and his constant pursuit of tridimensional character development. But with so many human angles to cover, not every storytelling play is fruitful.
Ettinger’s boyish smile disarms as much as the despair that pools in his eyes haunts. As previously demonstrated in a monologue for Paul Schrader’s “First Reformed,” he’s an actor capable of humble potency. As Cole, he speaks infrequently but harbors an inward tumult. Narrative bumps and all, “The Evening Hour” gives Ettinger a full stage to parade his unassuming virtuosity.
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