"Take Shelter"
Starring: Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Tova Stewart
Directed by: Jeff Nichols
120 minutes
USA/2011
It's rather appropriate to call Take Shelter a zeitgeist film, something that encapsulates the current state of society today. Using film a medium, Jeff Nichols has taken that idea and crafted it into a disturbing domestic drama about the fracturing and reconciliation of the family unit. Nichols's last film Shotgun Stories was a realistic portrait of violence among families in a small southern town; Take Shelter gives you way more to chew on, as its take on our national anxiety disorder is frightening and concise.
