The Delta

Name: The Delta
Genre: Drama
Released: August 15, 1997
Duration: 85 min
Rating: 60
Cast: Charles J. Ingram, Colonious David, Gene Crain, J.R. Crumpton, Mai Ballard

1997

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Strand Releasing | Release Date: August 15, 1997 | Unrated

Starring: Charles J. Ingram, Colonious David, Gene Crain, J.R. Crumpton, Mai Ballard, Melissa A. Dunn, Rachel Zan Huss, Richard Daggett, Shayne Gray, Thang Chan

Summary: Lincoln, who's not yet 18, leads a straight life most of the time: he has a girl friend, goes to dances, jokes with guys. But he also has a secret life, in which he's drawn to dark places where he has sex with men he doesn't know. One night, while visiting a gay video arcade, he connects with John, a Vietnamese-born gay man, in his 20sLincoln, who's not yet 18, leads a straight life most of the time: he has a girl friend, goes to dances, jokes with guys. But he also has a secret life, in which he's drawn to dark places where he has sex with men he doesn't know. One night, while visiting a gay video arcade, he connects with John, a Vietnamese-born gay man, in his 20s probably, whose father was an African-American US soldier. John invites Lincoln to spend some carefree time with him, and Lincoln takes him to his father's boat. John then convinces Lincoln to take the boat into the Mississippi delta, where setting off some fireworks out of season precipitates betrayal and revenge.… Expand

Director: Ira Sachs

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Unrated

Runtime: 85 min

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Stylistically captivating, subtly nuanced, and structurally unpredictable. Read full review

Kevin Thomas

Sachs' ability to draw deeply affecting, completely open and unself-conscious performances from Chan and Gray and other nonprofessionals as well is most impressive and highly effective. Working with masterly New York cinematographer Benjamin P. Speth, Sachs has created in The Delta an achingly poignant portrait of alienation and longing so evocative that it is poetic in its impact. [15 Aug 1997, p.F4]

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Sachs allowed his actors to develop situations and dialogue through improvisation, giving the film a meandering, naturalistic feel. When plot does assert itself, in the abrupt closing scenes, the effect is truly disconcerting. Read full review

Russell Smith

On a more basic level, I simply found it so hard to penetrate the two main characters' cauterized psyches that, in the end, I hardly gave a damn what happened to them. Read full review

Emanuel Levy

Sachs commits a major error by deciding to center on Lincoln’s character, for John is a far more interesting, complex and disturbing personality. Read full review

Stephen Holden

A film that's alternatingly intriguing and frustrating and that leaves too many loose ends dangling. Read full review

Jami Bernard

The movie then becomes John's story, making an unbelievable leap of psychodrama to do so.

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