Subtle, nuanced and absorbing, Lance Edmands' directorial debut "Bluebird" is a remarkable first feature and wise beyond his and its years. Carefully shot, well-observed and featuring terrific performances from an excellent slate of experienced, yet largely unknown actors (aside from the "Mad Men" and HBO stars), "Bluebird" is an affecting and moving examination of family, mothers, connectedness and the ripple effect of tragic consequences. In the cold, wintry northern corners of a small decaying logging-town in Maine, a local school bus driver Lesley (Amy Morton, Tony winner for "August: Osage County") goes about her day -- driving kids back and forth from school. Her distant husband of 20 years, Richard (John Slattery), is elsewhere, preoccupied with the imminent closing of the paper mill that sustains this town and will eventually affect his logging job. Their teenage daughter Paula (Emily Meade) is also disaffected, struggling with boys, sex and the estrangement of her...
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