Fresno Filmworks
  • Take Shelter

  • Friday, December 9, 2011
  • 5:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.
  • The Tower Theatre
  • 815 E. Olive Avenue, Fresno [map]

  • $10.00 General Admission
  • $8.00 for Students and Seniors
  • buy tickets now →

“A remarkable new film. The amazing Michael Shannon’s taciturn, haunted performance manages to be both heartbreaking and terrifying. Jeff Nichols has made a perfect allegory for a panicky time.” – A.O. Scott, THE NEW YORK TIMES

“A dazzling piece of filmmaking. Michael Shannon gives a towering performance.” – Joe Morgenstern, WALL STREET JOURNAL

“It won the critics prize at Cannes. Now mass audiences can see what all the hubbub was about. TAKE SHELTER’s lingering threat should have filmgoers checking the night sky as they leave the theater.” – Richard Corliss, TIME

 

Watch the Trailer

Synopsis

This American independent drama won the prestigious FIPRESCI Prize at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. The movie stars Oscar-nominated actor Michael Shannon as Curtis, a husband and father from a small Ohio town who is plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions. Curtis makes a modest living as a crew chief for a sand mining company. His wife is a stay-at-home mom and part-time seamstress, and his daughter is deaf. Curtis begins having terrifying dreams about an encroaching, apocalyptic storm. He chooses to keep the disturbance to himself, channeling his anxiety into the obsessive building of a storm shelter in his family’s backyard – a shelter for his family from the storm and perhaps from himself. His behavior confounds his wife and the townspeople, and it stokes his fear of what his disastrous dreams may truly signify. Co-starring Jessica Chastain.

Directed by Jeff Nichols
USA, 35mm, 120 mins
In English

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