Hot off its win for best director (and a special jury prize) for Joe Talbot at Sundance, this is a thought-provoking and endearing look at what happens when change in a community (in this case San Francisco) benefits some — primarily those with money, of course — but leaves many others behind. Jimmie Fails (who had a hand in the screenplay) plays a man obsessed with caring for a grand house he’s been told his grandfather built (but had to leave as the result of a legal dispute); the only problem is that the house doesn’t belong to him or his family any more, and his love for the house doesn’t endear him, to say the least, to the current residents. In part realistic, in part stylistic and nostalgic, this is a story that will likely stay with you after the credits roll.
