Soft in the Head
Intensely Dysfunctional
Nathan Silver
Nathan Silver graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in 2005. Since then, he has written and directed four short films and four feature films: The Blind (2009), Exit Elena (2012), Soft in the Head (2013), and Uncertain Terms (2014). His films have played festivals around the world, including Edinburgh, Vienna, Los Angeles, Slamdance, Sarasota, Torino, and BAFICI. Filmmaker Magazine rec
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Filmography
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Stinking Heaven
Married couple Jim and Lucy run a commune for sober living out of their suburban New Jersey home. The motley members eat, bathe and work together selling homemade "health tea" out of their van. Although there's constant bickering and plenty of fires to be put out, Jim and Lucy have managed to...Watch Movie
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Uncertain Terms
Needing a sudden escape from the city, Robbie flees Brooklyn for the countryside to stay with his aunt who runs a home for pregnant teenagers. As the only man in the house, Robbie inadvertently becomes the object of the girls' attention... and affection. He eventually meets Nina, who is mature...Watch Movie
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Soft in the Head
Thrown out of her New York City apartment, Natalia, a twenty-five year old hot mess, relies on the kindness of friends and strangers. Seemingly unaware of the havoc she wreaks, she skips from one place to another, including her best friend's, where she crashes a holiday meal...Watch Movie
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Exit Elena
With no place to call home, nineteen year old Elena takes a job as a live-in aide. She finds herself thrust into the middle of a family in crisis: all the things that go on between a father, grandmother, mother and cat. Eventually, Elena strikes something of a balance (until the prodigal son...Watch Movie
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Recent Reviews
Uncertain Terms
Silver's most formally accomplished film thus far in his career is also the result of his least narrative and thematically accomplished.
Soft in the Head
Nathan Silver's SOFT IN THE HEAD is an uncompromising character study on the brutality of emotional manipulation, boredom, and deception. Natalia is a borderline sociopathic youth who has seemingly zero...
Exit Elena
Nathan Silver's always interesting hyper-realistic approach is compelling here, but fails to develop as seemlessly as his later efforts.
Uncertain Terms
It's reasonably well-made, reasonably well-acted and the emotions driving the characters well-defined. And perhaps that's why this film didn't resonate with me as much as it could have. I felt...