Keane

Lodge Kerrigan’s third film is an uncomfortably close-up portrait of a man losing his mind, and just maybe finding it again. Damian Lewis is effective as Keane, whom we find haunting the Port Authority bus terminal months after his 7-year-old daughter, it seems, was abducted while he was supposed to be putting her on a bus back to her mother, from whom he was divorced after a brief marriage. The atmosphere is claustrophobic and uncertain both inside his head, and from the frame-filling outside. He mutters and rants, in a manner one can see frequently on the streets of New York. In the dead-end hotel where he lives, there is an abandoned mother with her own little girl, in whom Keane takes an unsettling interest. The film builds an effective sense of suspense and dread, but can hardly be recommended as entertainment, though it does have a cumulative power in its portrayal of mental breakdown and possible redemption. (2005, dvd, n.) *6* (MC-79.)