Hal Hartley, poet laureate of working-class Long Island, never broke big like some of his contemporaries in the indie film movement of the Eighties and Nineties; his movies are too mannered, too oddball for mainstream attention. Of his early films, 1990’s Trust is arguably his most approachable – and his most romantic, if you’re attracted to total weirdos who wear their inside thoughts on the outside. (Yes, please.) Martin Donovan and Adrienne Shelley are the unlikely couple (he’s a death-obsessed computer wiz, she’s a neon-drenched high schooler), while Edie Falco has a supporting role as a divorcée smarting from life’s disappointments. Donovan – a Hartley regular – returns in follow-up Simple Men, which screens Tuesday. – Kimberley Jones
