“I’ve thought more about men who saw combat in World War I,’’ he says, “and have eased up on a few of the characters.” His new novel is about 20th-century labor strife ... .
It’s also a film that brings a few of Kubota Wladyka’s other dreams to fruition — like trying a different genre from his previous “serious, social thrillers,” making a dance film, a film set in Japan and a film with a Japanese main character.
It’s both a testament to LaFramboise’s skills that he’s able to do this while still making accessible indie-pop (to place him in a very loose genre) and also to our current pop culture milieu, which ...