Coinciding with its screening at South By Southwest today, Flickering Myth’s Rafael Motamayor caught up with actress Elle Fanning to discuss her role in Galveston, the new thriller from writer-director Melanie Laurent, which is adapted from the bestselling novel by Nic Pizzolatto (True Detective). Watch it here or over on our YouTube channel…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhV-zWM0AHs
Debt Collector and sometime-killer Roy (Ben Foster) senses that his boss, a dangerous, violent and pitiless loan-shark, wants him dead, and his next routine assignment is indeed a death-trap. Yet what the would-be killers do to Roy is not the same as what he does to them…after a smoking spasm of violence, they are mostly dead and he is just about alive. Before making his getaway, Roy discovers young prostitute Rocky (Elle Fanning) hiding in the back room, and he sees something in her frightened, defiant eyes that prompts a fateful decision. He takes her with him as he flees New Orleans to Galveston—an action as ill-advised as it is inescapable. Rocky is too young, too tough, too sexy – and far too much trouble, especially when she makes a detour to liberate her 3 year old sister from the clutches of their seedy step-father. Like the smoke dancing upwards from a barrel of a gun, there’s no way things are going to end well.
This fragile trio hides in the battered seascape of Galveston’s country-western bars and fleabag motels, a world of treacherous drifters, rusting pickup trucks, and worn-out dreams. Any chance of a safe haven is soon lost. Rocky is a girl with secrets to hide, one that will pursue and damage Roy for a very long time to come in this powerful and atmospheric film noir.
Galveston features a cast that includes Elle Fanning, Ben Foster, Lili Reinhart, María Valverde, Beau Bridges, Robert Aramayo, and Adepero Oduye.
Originally published March 10, 2018. Updated March 12, 2018.
