The dark seductress represents an unnamed militant force. As the strangely intriguing story unfolds, Schiff’s character is revealed as an agribusiness executive who loves music and Yeats, but is a cog in a destructive machine. The story holds through perceptive acting in the lead roles, especially Peyton Kennedy as shy nerdy Gitty and a brilliantly tricky performance by Richard Schiff as the man in the silo. The line between reality and the girl’s imagination-her dream-nightmares and her perception of the unfathomable doings of adults-is never firmly set. Gitty’s teenage brother is a dangerous sociopath. She repeatedly sees a rider in black on the horizon and that dark seductress turns up at the farm, involving her financially hard-pressed but essentially honest parents in a conspiracy whose outlines are gradually revealed. He wants to grant Gitty a wish in exchange for a favor. Gitty finds a mysterious man trapped inside a silo, which resembles a fairy tale tower-dungeon. The feature debut by writer-director Anne Hamilton invokes the riddling psychology of the Brothers Grimm at several turns. The endless fields are Gitty’s playground, but the tall green crops cast deep shadows. Foreclosures are reaching into her family’s remote county. Ronald Reagan is glimpsed on TV, insisting that government has no business bailing out family farms. The protagonist of American Fable, an 11-year old girl called Gitty, is growing up on a Wisconsin farm as the 1980s farm crisis rises to a boil.
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