One man in a big, big city looking for a six-year-old child... hopeless. About 20,000 kids go missing in NYC every year, making Joe Public shrug their collective shoulders to yet another parent’s plight. Especially one looking as beaten-down and schizo as Keane (Damian Lewis). Shot in 2004, Lodge Kerrigan’s intense, unsettling portrait of a man lost follows the impressive Lewis as he trawls, muttering to himself, around the Port Authority Bus Terminal – the place he says he last saw his daughter. With newspaper cuttings littering his hotel room, and his intentions towards a fellow guest’s daughter unknown, the sound of disquiet is deafening. Did he ever have a daughter? Did he abduct a girl? Could the date (12 September, year unknown) be of significance, especially in New York?

DVD Extras:

Alternative cut by Steven Soderbergh

A product of Steven Soderbergh’s Section Eight house, Kerrigan’s Keane stands alone as an impressive piece of work. However, the DVD’s sole extra will likely send cinénerds into spasm, for the Traffic man has cut his own version. “We agreed it was an interesting (to us) example of how editing affects intent. Or something,” explains the auteur. His version, while similar in effect, plays around with events (the purpose of Keane’s search, for instance, is revealed later on).

Extra of the year? A new Soderbergh movie? Erm, yeah. But, whether cut by Kerrigan or big Steve, this is one Keane. Crammed full of hopes and fears, it’s impossible not to admire.