Country Gold is director Mickey Reece’s Lynchian love letter to the late George Jones
Critic’s pick, a despondent, down-and-out twang-music legend laments the way pop artists are treated. He just wants to make people feel better, but he feels unwanted now by fans and the music industry. “After tomorrow,” he says, “they’ll have to find somebody else to devour.”is director Mickey Reece’s Lynchian love letter to the late George Jones, an iconic country and western crooner and self-destructive boozer known for such chart-toppers as 1980′s. The film is set in 1995.
His plan is to have himself cryogenically frozen, then reawakened when all the people he’s hurt are dead.Playing opposite Hall and his crusty version of Jones is Oklahoma writer-director Reece himself, portraying a young country star who counts Jones as his hero. He’s Troyal, a pudgy, self-styled good ol’ boy, also from Oklahoma. He sometimes wears a white cowboy hat, sometimes a black one, and is a thinly veiled Garth Brooks – so thinly veiled as to be translucent.
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