Lance Hammer’s “Queen At Sea” ends one of the longest and strangest disappearing acts in recent American independent cinema. Hammer arrived at Sundance in 2008 with “Ballast,” a raw, quietly devastating Mississippi Delta drama that won directing and cinematography prizes and seemed to announce a major new filmmaker. Then he did not make another feature for 18 years.
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Now Hammer returns with another intimate family drama, although the moral crisis at its center is nearly impossible to untangle.
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