Based on the 1930 classic by Faulkner, it is the story of the death of Addie Bundren and her family';s quest to honor her wish to be buried in the nearby town of Jefferson.
Like Franco's other directorial efforts, it ends up coming across as an academic art object, somewhere halfway between a graduate thesis and a video installation-interesting, but only in context.
Some of the filming techniques are overused and the monologues are a bit too circuitous, but As I Lay Dying has the ability to be quite striking at times and its impulsive structure can be viewed as both an asset and a defect.
