{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2024}} {{Infobox film | name = Shit Year | image = Shit Year poster.jpg | alt = | caption = Film poster | director = Cam Archer | producer = Lars Knudsen<br>Jay Van Hoy | writer = Cam Archer | story = | starring = Ellen Barkin | music = Mick Turner | cinematography = Aaron Platt | editing = Madeleine Riley | studio = Parts and Labor<br>Wild Invention | distributor = Cinemad Presents | released = {{Film date|2010|05|15|Cannes}} | runtime = 95 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = | gross = }}
'''''Shit Year''''' is a 2010 American experimental drama film written and directed by Cam Archer and starring Ellen Barkin.<ref>{{cite web|last=Bennett|first=Ray|title=Shit Year -- Film Review|date=14 October 2010|work=The Hollywood Reporter|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/shit-year-film-review-29610|accessdate=31 December 2017}}</ref> The film was screened at the Directors' Fortnight event of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.quinzaine-cineastes.fr/fr/edition/2010 |title=Quinzaine 2010 |work=quinzaine-realisateurs.com |access-date=7 February 2018}}</ref>
==Plot== After a successful career, actress Colleen West (Ellen Barkin) decides to retire and return to a life without so much adventure in a peaceful place. It is when a large building is installed in the vicinity and breaks the calm of the place. Mrs. West, then, realizes that the serenity of before all that would not return and that her life, in reality, was an entire stage, where everything and everyone were full interpretations. Seized by dissatisfaction, Colleen begins to feel as if she has lived her life through her characters staged on stages and on screens.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Entrar |url=https://makingoff.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=33763 |access-date=2023-12-29 |website=Making Off |language=en}}</ref>
==Cast== *Ellen Barkin as Colleen West *Luke Grimes as Harvey West *Bob Einstein as Rick *Theresa Randle as Marion *Melora Walters as Shelly *Rickie Lee Jones<ref name=variety/> as Narrator
==Production== According to Archer, the film was shot in Los Angeles, with additional reshoots in Santa Cruz, California.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Macaulay|first=Scott|title=''Shit Year'' Director Cam Archer at Cannes|date=2 June 2010|magazine=Filmmaker|url=http://filmmakermagazine.com/8938-shit-year-director-cam-archer-at-cannes-by-scott-macaulay/#.WkjDQN-nHIU|accessdate=31 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title="Shit Year," Says Director Cam Archer, "is a thinly veiled portrait of me."|date=22 September 2011|work=IndieWire|url=http://www.indiewire.com/2011/09/interview-shit-year-says-director-cam-archer-is-a-thinly-veiled-portrait-of-me-52035/|accessdate=31 December 2017}}</ref>
==Reception== The film has a 33% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.<ref>{{cite web|title=Shit Year|work=Rotten Tomatoes|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/shit_year/|accessdate=11 March 2021}}</ref> Glenn Heath Jr. of ''Slant Magazine'' awarded the film three stars out of four.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Heath Jr.|first=Glenn|title=Shit Year|date=27 September 2011|magazine=Slant Magazine|url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/shit-year|accessdate=31 December 2017}}</ref>
Eric Kohn of IndieWire gave the film a mixed review but praised Barkin's performance.<ref>{{cite news|last=Kohn|first=Eric|title=REVIEW; A Non-Linear Labyrinth: Cam Archer's "Shit Year"|date=21 September 2011|work=IndieWire|url=http://www.indiewire.com/2011/09/review-a-non-linear-labyrinth-cam-archers-shit-year-52061/|accessdate=31 December 2017}}</ref> Jay Weissberg of ''Variety'' gave a positive review and wrote that the film "stays engrossing thanks not only to Barkin’s strengths but also Archer’s compositional eye."<ref name=variety>{{cite magazine|last=Weissberg|first=Jay|title=Shit Year: A just-retired actress faces the void left by a life emptied of all roles save herself in Cam Archer's imagefest.|date=15 May 2010|magazine=Variety|url=https://variety.com/2010/film/markets-festivals/shit-year-1117942763/|accessdate=31 December 2017}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{IMDb title|1294212}} * {{rotten-tomatoes|shit_year}}
Category:American drama films Category:American avant-garde and experimental films Category:2010s avant-garde and experimental films Category:2010 English-language films Category:2010 American films Category:Films produced by Lars Knudsen (producer) Category:English-language drama films Category:2010 films
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