For Ellen (2012)

I've really liked Paul Dano since I saw Little Miss Sunshine when I was sixteen. He's just got the strangest face, with his jarring nose and his eyebrows that seem to continually be trying to escape his face, usually by fading into his skin. It's a face with a whole lot of character, and it's really very different to the slew of cookie-cutter actors in Hollywood (I mean, even the 'ugly guy' actors tend to look the same). So Paul Dano in one of my favourite film sub-genre (domestic dramas full of well-meaning, broken, useless people) makes me really eager for For Ellen. It looks like an emotionally-violating piece of cinema, but I'm up for that more often than not.