Official U.S. Trailer for Buster's Mal Heart
HomeOfficial U.S. Trailer for Buster's Mal Heart
Posted April 6, 2017 03:50 PM by Webmaster
Independent distributors Well Go USA have sent us a brand new official trailer for director Sarah Adina Smith's film Buster's Mal Heart (2016), starring Rami Malek, DJ Qualls, Kate Lyn Sheil, Lin Shaye. Tony Huss, Mark Kelly, and Sandra Ellis Lafferty. The film will open in theaters across the nation on April 28.
Official synopsis: In this bold thriller peppered with dark humor and interlocking mystery, an eccentric mountain man is on the run from the authorities, surviving the winter by breaking into empty vacation homes in a remote community. Regularly calling into radio talk shows — where he has acquired the nickname "Buster" — to rant about the impending Inversion at the turn of the millennium, he is haunted by visions of being lost at sea, and memories of his former life as a family man.
Buster (Rami Malek, Mr. Robot: The Complete First Season) was once Jonah, a hard-working husband and father whose job as the night-shift concierge at a hotel took its toll on his psyche and, consequently, his marriage to the sensitive Marty (Kate Lyn Sheil) — until a chance encounter with a conspiracy-obsessed drifter (DJ Qualls) changed the course of their lives forever. As the solitary present-day Buster drifts from house to house, eluding the local sheriff at every turn, we gradually piece together the events that fractured his life and left him alone on top of a snowy mountain, or perhaps in a small rowboat in the middle of a vast ocean — or both, in this visceral mind bender.
DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT:
I like to make movies that have their own cosmology, governed by emotion. Jonah is one soul in two bodies, split by grief.
It's a story of a spiritual fission catalyzed by a cry against the gods... a cry so loud that the fabric of spacetime caught on fucking fire. It's a meditation on individual responsibility in a mechanistic universe. Whose fault is it that Jonah was born with a malformed heart? Who should stand trial, the insane man or the universe that gave birth to him?
Examined through the lens of this film, insanity becomes a problem of quantum entanglement. One soul, two realities. Each incarnation is a man determined to call God to task.
After all, a pool of suffering fuels the Machine, blood as black as oil. The picture show cranks on, churning out All Things Beautiful. Miracles flicker before our eyes, ceaselessly. We are lucky to be here, on this side, bearing witness, enjoying the fruits of someone else's decay.
The Christians fervently, desperately, retell the story of a man who will suffer for us. He loves us so much, he's willing to be sacrificed. Over and over again, all alone. He'll save us from the terrible machine. What a guy!
But it takes more than the blood of one man to keep the cycle in motion. Every flower requires more than it's weight in dirt, that is the law of Nature.
And so we know, in our happiest moments, that our turn will soon come. We'll melt in the hot fires, be boiled down for fuel like the rest. This is our curse and our honor.
I like to think of Buster's Mal Heart as a comedy. Not the kind played for laughs, but the other kind... the kind that arises from our earnest and imperfect efforts to be in the world, to make sense of the senseless.
Because perhaps, despite our often graceless existence, Love is a force to be reckoned with. Perhaps the strongest hearts can elicit a response from the void. -SARAH ADINA SMITH
Official synopsis: In this bold thriller peppered with dark humor and interlocking mystery, an eccentric mountain man is on the run from the authorities, surviving the winter by breaking into empty vacation homes in a remote community. Regularly calling into radio talk shows — where he has acquired the nickname "Buster" — to rant about the impending Inversion at the turn of the millennium, he is haunted by visions of being lost at sea, and memories of his former life as a family man.
Buster (Rami Malek, Mr. Robot: The Complete First Season) was once Jonah, a hard-working husband and father whose job as the night-shift concierge at a hotel took its toll on his psyche and, consequently, his marriage to the sensitive Marty (Kate Lyn Sheil) — until a chance encounter with a conspiracy-obsessed drifter (DJ Qualls) changed the course of their lives forever. As the solitary present-day Buster drifts from house to house, eluding the local sheriff at every turn, we gradually piece together the events that fractured his life and left him alone on top of a snowy mountain, or perhaps in a small rowboat in the middle of a vast ocean — or both, in this visceral mind bender.
DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT:
I like to make movies that have their own cosmology, governed by emotion. Jonah is one soul in two bodies, split by grief.
It's a story of a spiritual fission catalyzed by a cry against the gods... a cry so loud that the fabric of spacetime caught on fucking fire. It's a meditation on individual responsibility in a mechanistic universe. Whose fault is it that Jonah was born with a malformed heart? Who should stand trial, the insane man or the universe that gave birth to him?
Examined through the lens of this film, insanity becomes a problem of quantum entanglement. One soul, two realities. Each incarnation is a man determined to call God to task.
After all, a pool of suffering fuels the Machine, blood as black as oil. The picture show cranks on, churning out All Things Beautiful. Miracles flicker before our eyes, ceaselessly. We are lucky to be here, on this side, bearing witness, enjoying the fruits of someone else's decay.
The Christians fervently, desperately, retell the story of a man who will suffer for us. He loves us so much, he's willing to be sacrificed. Over and over again, all alone. He'll save us from the terrible machine. What a guy!
But it takes more than the blood of one man to keep the cycle in motion. Every flower requires more than it's weight in dirt, that is the law of Nature.
And so we know, in our happiest moments, that our turn will soon come. We'll melt in the hot fires, be boiled down for fuel like the rest. This is our curse and our honor.
I like to think of Buster's Mal Heart as a comedy. Not the kind played for laughs, but the other kind... the kind that arises from our earnest and imperfect efforts to be in the world, to make sense of the senseless.
Because perhaps, despite our often graceless existence, Love is a force to be reckoned with. Perhaps the strongest hearts can elicit a response from the void. -SARAH ADINA SMITH