Lance Hammer
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Much like the Dardennes, Granick allows her story's meaning to derive subtly from a steady, near-inconspicuous accumulation of nuances from the life of its main character, but unlike another Sundance champ, Lance Hammer's something-blue-something-borrowed-nothing-new Ballast , Granik's style isn't actually indebted to the master filmmakers behind The Son and L'Enfant .
Its closest relatives are Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter and Elia Kazan's Wild River , but shot through with the “gritty” vision of cruddy home life and bayou listlessness of Lance Hammer's Ballast .