Film Review – Barron’s Cove

Evan Ari Kelman makes his feature-length directorial debut with “Barron’s Cove,” also claiming screenplay duties. He’s looking to make a deep impression with the picture, creating a tale of agonizing loss and grief, also shaping an unusual revenge story between an emotionally devastated man and the 10-year-old boy he believes murdered his son. There’s incredible bleakness to the material, which ends up becoming its most compelling element, daring to explore the depths of emotional instability and feral thinking during a nightmarish time. Kelman has something with the premise and characters, but he can’t sustain such intensity, eventually transforming the film into a thriller of sorts, which is the wrong way to go. “Barron’s Cove” is eventually sunk by weak creative decisions and editorial indifference, but it does contain a riveting first act, promising a severe study of madness that never arrives. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com