Film Review – Ned Rifle

It’s been a long time since Hal Hartley has made something that looked and sounded like a Hal Hartley movie. Experimentation has been his primary concern for the last 15 years of his career, and while artistic growth is always welcome, Hartley’s gifts remain rooted with his earliest work, which took a droll, artful look at the pressures of romance and connection in a troublesome world populated with lonely people. “Ned Rifle” is a return to form for the filmmaker, with this strange revenge story working as a final act to his “Henry Fool” trilogy and as an opportunity to revisit a few notable faces from Hartley’s body of work. It’s a class reunion with a side of intrigue, executed in a most Hartley-like manner. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com