Midnight Special, Jeff Nichols, USA, 112', OV (English) with subtitles in Spanish
A escape from religious extremists and local Police quickly becomes a pursuit at national level with the highest levels of Government involved. In the end the father puts at risk everything to protect Alton and to lead his son to his destiny, a destiny that could also decide the fate of the entire world.
The helmer of Take Shelter, Mud and Loving, Jeff Nichols (Little Rock, Arkansas, 1978), writes and directs Midnight Special, a supernatural thriller in a science fiction- cum-road movie crossbreed. The film, premiered at the Berlinale, follows a father and his 8 year-old son as they beat a hasty retreat from the Federal Government, hot on their tracks after discovering that the child has special powers.
'Midnight Special' is a supernatural thriller in a science fiction- cum-road movie crossbreed, by Jeff Nichols.