As vibrant and colorful as Marseille, France, is, something you don’t often see there is a plaid flannel shirt.
But that’s pretty much all Matt Damon’s …
As vibrant and colorful as Marseille, France, is, something you don’t often see there is a plaid flannel shirt. But that’s pretty much all Matt Damon’s average American character, Bill, wears in the engrossing drama “Stillwater.” Bill’s life, however, is hardly ho-hum. An Oklahoma oil rig worker, he isn’t traveling in the seaside city to take in the sights and nosh on foie gras terrine; his college-aged daughter, Allison (Abigail Breslin), has been imprisoned for a year in Marseille for the murder of her roommate she claims she didn’t commit. She’s serving a five-year sentence during the prime of her life. I’m going to take a wild guess and say Amanda Knox will not be watching “Stillwater” this weekend. What director Tom McCarthy’s intriguing film — which is a tad overlong — deftly explores are the cultural barriers that prevent us from achieving basic goals, such as solving a murder, and connecting with people unlike ourselves.
