By Michael Colford
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Sterlin Harjo
Starring: Casey Camp-Horinek | Jon Proudstar | Julian Ballentyne | Laura Spencer | Richard Way Whitman | Zoe Leigh Hopkins
Country: united_states
Year: 2009
Running time: 85
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1201135/reference
Michael says: “After hearing some praise about the new streaming television series, RESERVATION DOGS, which director Harjo executive produced as well as wrote and directed for, I decided to dip into his 2009 film, BARKING WATER, before starting in on the TV show. (What I didn’t remember until just now, is that Harjo is also responsible for the 2007 films FOUR SHEETS TO THE WIND that I enjoyed earlier this year. BARKING WATER is a more mature film than FOUR SHEETS, and is a lovely, low-budget road movie about love, regret, ad mortality. When Frankie gets a pretty dire health prognosis that leaves him with little time left to get his affairs in order, he reached out to his ex-wife, Irene, to help him. He never stopped loving Irene, but he treated her poorly and their marriage crumbled.Yet Irene still feels something for Frankie, and she can’t turn him down when he needs her help. So begins a road trip to get Frankie back home, while stopping in on important folks from his past so that he can put things right. It’s all meaningful and touching, but the real story is the examination of Frankie and Irene’s relationship both in the present and in the past.