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“Here Alone,” TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL

Alone in the post-apocalypse woods. What will you do?
Lucy Walters and Adam David Thompson
Directed by Rod Blackhurst

I think reading Max Brooks’s World War Z on the A-train as I commuted to and from the Tribeca Film Festival put me in the wrong frame of mind for the Rod Blackhurst-directed "Here Alone." The film takes place in the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse, yet there are only a few scenes with any zombies in them. The entire feature is a meditation on loss and loneliness as it follows Ann (Lucy Walters), ... more >