Posted: May 19, 08 8:15am

I recently watched a vintage film from 1972 entitled “Tomorrow”.

This film was indie before indie became ‘cool’, and stars Robert Duvall in a role of a common laborer which compliments Duvall’s acting style beautifully. Filmed in black and white and set in the poverty stricken thirties, the simple characters‘, minimal dialog and development of theme and story are delivered primarily through the visual of watching the characters react and interact with one another.

Written by William Faulkner and scripted by Horton Foote, it is a must see for any fan of Yoknapatawpha County. Robert Duvall plays Jackson Fentry the caretaker of a sawmill during the off-season. He befriends an abandoned pregnant girl and from there a tender love story unfolds.

The events which follow are tragic, but the bonds that develop between the characters is compelling and worth enduring the pain of their world.

The movie left me feeling empty with the awareness that life is hard. But it also left me very much fulfilled for having witness a beautiful piece of work that captured the best of classic literature and cinema.

Watch it…have Kleenex available.