An alum of the 2013 Ifp Filmmaker Labs (an experience he wrote about here), Paul Harrill’s Something, Anything is less saccharine than truthful. A quietly meditative, regional production, Harrill’s debut feature follows Peggy (Ashley Shelton), a young Southern woman who, after a series of tragic personal events, begins a spiritual quest to better herself as an individual with altruistic intentions. Ethereal throughout, Harrill’s film displays an assured, contemplative expressiveness behind the camera. The writer/director and his producing partner, Ashley Maynor, are as much advocates for strong storytelling in their own work as they are for encouraging it in the films of […]...
- 1/8/2015
- by Erik Luers
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
An alum of the 2013 Ifp Filmmaker Labs (an experience he wrote about here), Paul Harrill’s Something, Anything is less saccharine than truthful. A quietly meditative, regional production, Harrill’s debut feature follows Peggy (Ashley Shelton), a young Southern woman who, after a series of tragic personal events, begins a spiritual quest to better herself as an individual with altruistic intentions. Ethereal throughout, Harrill’s film displays an assured, contemplative expressiveness behind the camera. The writer/director and his producing partner, Ashley Maynor, are as much advocates for strong storytelling in their own work as they are for encouraging it in the films of […]...
- 1/8/2015
- by Erik Luers
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
A perspicacious examining of intimate moments, Paul Harrill's Something, Anything artfully circumnavigates narrative expectations in the manner of only the most thoughtful stories. Veering from relationship drama to romance to a coming-of-age film about an adult, Something, Anything refuses to pledge fealty to any particular genre, making itself at home instead as an astute study of one woman's path to self-actualization. The woman is Peggy (Ashley Shelton): She is married to Mark (Bryce Johnson), a not-particularly-considerate young professional, and pregnant with his child. That pregnancy turns into a miscarriage, which leads to the couple's separation. Peggy's one bright spot amid her loneliness is a bereavement note, filled with compassion, sent by Tim (Linds ...
- 1/7/2015
- Village Voice
★★★☆☆Consume and conform, worship and prey, is there really any difference between organised religion and consumerism? In Something, Anything (2014), Paul Harrill's sombre observation of sleepy Middle America, the pressure to abide by societies norms result in an unconventional love story about overcoming grief and having the courage to take a different direction. A series of hurried ellipses give us a glimpse into Peggy's (Ashley Shelton) life. In a matter of minutes we've witnessed her businessman boyfriend propose, the planning of their weeding, the big day itself and the ensuing news that she's pregnant. It's a fitting way to depict the fast pace at which we live our modern lives.
- 6/18/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
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