Unfolding over the course of one evening in the Hasidic community of Boro Park, Brooklyn, Keith Thomas’s debut feature, The Vigil, gets more unsettling the darker the night gets. Dave Davis plays Yakov, a young man experiencing difficulty living a newly secular life. As securing a job has proved difficult, he agrees to a friend’s impromptu request to serve as a shomer, watching over the cold body of a local man, Rubin Litvak, before the deceased is laid to rest. Anticipating an easy few hours of surfing the web on his smartphone, Yakov settles in for his watchman duties. Unfortunately […]
The post "We Spent a Lot of Time Choosing Lenses": Keith Thomas on The Vigil and His Forthcoming Firestarter Adaptation first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post "We Spent a Lot of Time Choosing Lenses": Keith Thomas on The Vigil and His Forthcoming Firestarter Adaptation first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 3/2/2021
- by Erik Luers
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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