In a strangely beautiful and unnerving moment, "Hide Your Smiling Faces" opens up with an arresting visual: a close-up of a snake -- its mouth wrapped around a fish, slowly struggling to swallow it whole. It's disturbing, fascinating and the shot lingers with a sense of awe, curiosity and wonder. An...
Read More »New Jersey-born filmmaker Daniel Patrick Carbone builds from his memories of youth to give an honest look into rural American life in his latest feature "Hide Your Smiling Faces." Inspired by the first films of Terrence Malick, Lynne Ramsay and Harmony Korine, the film takes a quiet, naturalistic ap...
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