Casey Affleck’s new film, “Company,” starring Atticus Affleck, has been described as a perplexing and slowly-paced exercise in narrative layering. The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival to a muted response and presents marketing challenges for distributors.
The film begins in 1975 with Evelyn (Emily Alyn Lind) arriving at a suburban Christmas party, seeking someone not recognized by the homeowner. She offers to tell a story to the intrigued guests. This story, set in 1953, centers on Tom (Nick Nolte), a widower who finds Alice (Caylee Cowan) collapsed in the snow and invites her into his cabin. Alice, in turn, shares a story about Rebecca (Adelaide Clemens) and Emmett (Scoot McNairy), a farming couple in Colorado.
Reviewers note the film’s structure, with stories nested within stories, leads to diminishing returns. While Affleck, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Ron Hansen, aims for an earnest seriousness similar to his 2019 film “Light of My Life,” “Company” is considered less assured. The opening soundtrack cue, Bob Dylan’s “Shelter From the Storm,” is described as lyrically fitting. The film’s “grabbiest story hook” is being carefully guarded, making it difficult to market to audiences who may be perplexed by the obfuscation and pacing.
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