The San Antonio native behind 'Spy Kids,' 'Sin City' and 'Desperado' takes a page out of the Christopher Nolan book for his mindbender of a new movie.
This new documentary burrows into the complex relationship an entire region of the country has to coal, and into how difficult it is to shed an identity.TEXAS, USA — An elegantly crafted and utterly transfixing documentary that deserves better than the scant few days it’ll get in San Antonio theaters next week, “” is only in the most general of terms about American reliance on coal.
In the case of “King Coal,” what might be a simple takeaway – coal as the driving force of the corners of Appalachian communities director Elaine McMillion Sheldon introduces us to – gains such magnitudes of complexity that it glides the viewer backward and forward in time, attitude, philosophy, identity.
The answer may be clear to us, but it makes it no less fascinating to observe how those we see in the movie reckon with them… or don’t. Sheldon, able to infuse immense melancholy into the simple image of a hand brushing across moss seeping into an inky-black tunnel, hardly puts herself at risk of shattering the stakes. The implications of her film shrink and expand as organically as breathing.
You come to sympathize with them. After all, it's so much easier deciding to remain in the king’s court when you don’t know how the world has moved on outside his walls. So what is “King Coal” about? It’s about a community’s relationship to the world around and under it, a relationship the movie understands is complicated, inherently beautiful and a touch tragic as well. By the end, it’s come to feel like a eulogy. What’s mined from that closure might represent the future of an entire region. KENS would like to send you push notifications about the latest news and weather.
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