Max Walker-Silverman – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

A LOVE SONG – Review by Martha K Baker

August 23, 2022August 21, 2022 Martha K. Baker A Love Song, Alfonso Herrera Salcedo, Dale Dickey, Max Walker-Silverman, Wes Studi

A Love Song is what film buffs call a “little movie.” Barely 90 minutes. One setting. One day. No car chases. No heavy breathing. No climax. Not even much dialogue in the script by Max Walker-Silverman. What this little movie has, however, is presence. Faye has been a widow for seven years. She is lonely, still. Her face reads as craggy as the hills. She is encamped on a plain in Colorado, and she dines on what she fishes out of the lake. Faye studies two reference books — one on bird songs for day and the other about stars for night.

Interviews

Dale Dickey sings A LOVE SONG, talks being Tough and Soft – Pamela Powell interviews

July 28, 2022July 29, 2022 Pamela Powell A Love Song, Alfonso Herrera Salcedo, Dale Dickey, Max Walker-Silverman, Wes Studi

The scene-stealing supporting actress Dale Dickey finally lands in the limelight as the leading lady in A Love Song. Dickey and co-star Wes Studi play characters who experience the uncertainties of love in later life in writer-director Max Walker-Silverman’s first feature, one of this year’s most thought-provoking, evocative and quietly sublime movies. Here, Dickey talks about the burden of carrying the film as it’s lead, about the pressures and pleasures of acting during the height of the pandemic — and she delves into what her character, Faye, means to her.

Reviews

A LOVE SONG – Review by JENNIFER GREEN

July 21, 2022July 28, 2022 Jennifer Green A Love Song, Alfonso Herrera Salcedo, Dale Dickey, Max Walker-Silverman, Wes Studi

A Love Song is a study in minimalism sustained by an understated, deeply authentic performance by veteran Dale Dickey and stunning natural scenery. The film is less a character study and more a meditation on time – how we spend it, how we remember it and how it passes us by. Writer-director Max Walker-Silverman and cinematographer Alfonso Herrera Salcedo express the theme through symmetrical storytelling and shots, lingering on moments and settings with focus and intentionality.