Getting Behind Their Maine Man

Until recently, the most celebrated aspect of the indie thriller Blanc de Blanc was the fact that its production track of just two short weeks came about after the gauntlet was thrown down on Twitter by Reid Gershbein in the direction of Lucas McNelly. However, the movie's micro-blogging origins have now been usurped by news that a year after completion and various festival screenings, Blanc de Blanc will be opening May 14th at a Flagship Cinemas Multiplex in Thomaston, Maine, in support of nearby Waldoro native McNelly.


Partly because of the way the film was made, McNelly chose to withhold all of the back story related to lead character David (Jason Kirsch), a backpacker who becomes involved with a Pittsburgh nurse (Rachel Shaw). "Whenever I watch a show like Lost, the answers are never as much fun as the speculation, the digging and the theories that the big mysteries trigger," McNelly explains in his Director's Statement. "So, if I'm going to make a film under such tricky circumstances, where execution will be so hard, giving audiences an opportunity to speculate is bound to have a better shelf life than a story where all the threads are neatly tied up." The plan seems to have worked.

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