Directed by Thomas McCarthy
Richard Jenkins, Haaz Sleiman
As a widowing professor, Jenkins (Six Feet Under’s passed-on patriarch) first appears looking through a window, a visual expression of detachment that recurs throughout the film. Befriending an immigrant couple living in his Manhattan apartment, however, Jenkins gradually discards such emotional armor. This trajectory of a white middle-class man’s salvation via exotic foreigners could have lapsed into orientalism (as in The Darjeeling Limited), but McCarthy (The Station Agent) invests characters with enough complexity and political discontent to avoid that quandary.
This review appears in the April 9 issue of The L Magazine.
As a widowing professor, Jenkins (Six Feet Under’s passed-on patriarch) first appears looking through a window, a visual expression of detachment that recurs throughout the film. Befriending an immigrant couple living in his 
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