Two wounded, complicated, and innocent beings find a way down a path together. There can be harmony! Moonrise Kingdom, with it's fog and nature, with it's costumes and bandages, allows viewers to surrender to another time. It is an idyllic fable, a kind of simple pleasant story of romance and of what it means to find another survivor in the world. That kind of rare beauty when one finds their own raven.

The opening monologue of a description of a high as the scraping out of veins begins this very raw portrait of a junkie's remembrance of his journey to the present. The hopping time line and gentle jittering Billy Crudup give Jesus' Son it's humanity. But the real element of this story is the wry sense of everything happening as it does, uncontrollably and almost beyond our own will. This is the very sensitive nature of Alison Maclean's rendering of Denis Johnson's short story. Floating in and out of memories, being in someone else's dream, getting lost in new love--all of these moments that are oft trite in the wrong hands are delivered with grace and humor from a pretty mindbending cast assembled by this independent newcomer. The always incredible Samantha Morton. The epicness of Holly Hunter & Dennis Hopper. And two surprises--the very young and funny Jack Black and the uber-excellent cameo by artist and filmmaker Miranda July. Jesus' Son is a buoyant and solid piece of storytelling and a version of someone else's dream that could be lived in repeatedly.