Reactions to Around the Bay
"Bracing, intimate, involving...Achieves sharp potency."
-- Dennis Harvey, Variety
"Alejandro Adams' Around the Bay is a true find...[a] quiet, beautifully realized story. Every single moment of the story rings true, aided by uniformly excellent performances..." -- indieWIRE
"I thoroughly enjoyed Around the Bay...the camerawork, the stylistic choices, the whole look of the film. It was poignant and engrossing. [The director has] pulled off something difficult, a chamber drama in the sunshine. [Around the Bay is] a very fine film, which stays with me."
-- Phillip Lopate
"Evocative and lovely...thoroughly enthralling and technically masterful. There are moments of such spare beauty in this film that they register in the body like pebbles dropping into the deep waters of grief. Alejandro Adams articulates the dysfunction of a fractured family with eloquent precision and exact focus. The effect is polished and lapidary, but not without warmth and hope." -- Michael Guillen, Twitch
The Job
The actor's job as Stanislavski saw it in its simplest form is to bring the life of the human soul to the stage. Not the life of the character's human soul, the life of the actor's human soul. Warts and all. Especially the warts.
For me, acting is more about personal revelation than anything else. Abdomen-ripping, not-for-the-faint-of-heart revelation. A public, forehead to foot, layer by layer, scalpel slicing of oneself until everything that was inside lies piled in a steaming heap at one's feet. Not a pretty picture (apologies to any aspiring actors who hoped acting was about hiding behind masks) but a picture that (good) audiences demand and deserve and one that begs a thousand questions; the most often asked being: How does an actor do that for an entire film or play? The answer is: he (or she) doesn't. He does it only for a moment.
- Steve Voldseth's blog
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