After the Denim
"After the Denim" is the story of James Packer, a retired accountant and recovering alcoholic who transforms from a bristly, argumentative, resentful man stuck in the routines of his own preferences into a husband capable of compa...
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""After the Denim" translates Raymond Carver's short story of the same title to film with an admirable appreciation of Carver's small-town characters. The art direction is exquisite -- the apartment, the clothes, the close-ups, especially having Edith wear a girlish hair style (graying) and James in conservative clothes. At the same time, the film goes beyond merely translating Carver's story; it brings in some resonances from Carver's longer (original, unedited by Gordon Lish) version of the story called "If It Please You" and updates the "hippies&..."
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"After the Denim" is the story of James Packer, a retired accountant and recovering alcoholic who transforms from a bristly, argumentative, resentful man stuck in the routines of his own preferences into a husband capable of compa...