Roadside has released a new poster for David Gordon Green‘s latest movie Joe, which I caught at the Toronto Film Festival last September and it’s actually a decent film with solid performances from both leads — Nicolas Cage as the title character and surrogate father figure for Gary Jones, a young boy played by Tye Sheridan (Mud, Tree of Life).
Here’s a snippet from my review:
David Gordon Green‘s Joe mines backwoods, hick territory, finding a slight narrative kinship with Jeff Nichols‘ Mud combined with the tonal darkness of Winter’s Bone. The strongest thread holding the three films together is obviously the focus on down-on-their-luck families with bad dental hygiene, drinking problems and poor living conditions, all of which are traits I typically loathe. Narrative’s of this sort typically prey on the built in sadness that comes with seeing hard luck families scraping to survive rather than developing actual characters, but every so often a few rise above the rest.
In this case Joe works and it doesn’t. The tragic narrative has its hiccups along the way, but improves as it builds its story around two strong performances from Nicolas Cage and Tye Sheridan, elevating it slightly above similar exploitative white trash weepers.
The film is set to hit theaters on April 11, check out the poster below.
