Lynn Shelton, a pillar of the independent filmmaking community, died Friday at 54. Times film critic Justin Chang on the director who loved actors.
It begins with a woman, Deirdre , strolling into an Alabama pawnshop, flashing a big, twitchy smile and radiating nervous energy. The owner, Mel, receives her in stony silence, and their awkward, lopsided conversation lays bare a painful shared history. After some strained small talk, Deirdre tries to pawn a piece of jewelry, chattering on about how great she’s doing in her new job and how she just needs some money to get her car fixed.
And now, the unthinkable. None of us could have guessed at the time that “Sword of Trust” would be the last picture Shelton would ever make, or that Deirdre — who in one six-minute scene manages to convey a longtime struggle with addiction and loss — would be the last character she would ever play.at age 54 of an undetected blood disorder, was a director who loved actors and an actor who sometimes appeared in other directors’ movies, but she rarely appeared in her own.
Over a film career typified by formally modest, emotionally perceptive relationship studies like “Humpday,” “Your Sister’s Sister” and “Outside In,” Shelton gave us a lot of chatty, unfiltered types like Deirdre, characters whose thoughts and feelings came pouring out in restless, alternately delightful and infuriating waves.
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