Where To Land (2025)
Director: Hal Hartley Run Time: 74 min. Release Year: 2025
Starring: Bill Sage, Gia Crovatin, Katelyn Sparks, Kathleen Chalfant, Kim Taff
Country: United States
Language: English
About the film:
At 58, celebrated romantic-comedy director Joe Fulton (Bill Sage) decides to leave the spotlight and applies to be a groundskeeper at a city cemetery — a modest job where he can “feel tired at the end of the day.” But when he also prepares his last will and testament, his girlfriend, family and friends assume he’s dying, and they begin gathering to say their farewells. In this quietly witty and contemplative farce, Joe grapples with mortality, legacy and the strange idea of choosing a simpler life, while those around him struggle to understand his quiet shift away from fame and toward the ordinary.
Through minimal drama and lots of conversational pauses, Hal Hartley uses Joe’s journey to explore questions of what we truly value, what work means, how material possessions bind us — and, ultimately, where we land when we’re no longer chasing the next big scene.
About the filmmaker:
Hal Hartley is an American filmmaker, writer, and composer celebrated for his deadpan wit, stylized dialogue, and offbeat explorations of love, morality, and modern alienation in films such as Trust, The Unbelievable Truth, and Henry Fool, which helped define the American independent cinema of the 1990s.
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