![]() ![]() It is later, when Phoenix meets Danny (Johnny Sinclair) and his father Luigi (Luigi Jacuzio), that Phoenix begins to open up and share dialogue. The moment John asks Phoenix why he puts Alka Seltzer in his coffee, Phoenix immediately makes a clean exit. ![]() On his trip back from the coffee shop one afternoon, he meets John (Malcolm Barrett) who attempts to start a conversation with him. Phoenix lives in constant fear after witnessing his brother’s murder, so familiarity and routines keep him safe. Once a month he digs a hole in a designated spot and buries a series of black garbage bags – this is his “job”. He does not smoke as “smoke smells” and “smoking is for construction workers”. At night he medicates himself enough to fall asleep with the television on. He has a regimented and ritualistic lifestyle – after waking, he takes his medication, mixes a smoothie, walks into town to buy a coffee (making himself noticeable to others, without actually engaging in conversation), he pretends to work out, purchases marijuana and a few snacks, and is successfully high by the time he returns home. Tom Sizemore plays Phoenix, who lives in isolation and simplicity and would not have it any other way. ![]() You might as well dig holes to stay busy.Ĭalico Skies is director Valerio Esposito’s second feature film, his first being the Italian film Tode Ti (2013). The Mojave desert can be a lonely place to live.
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