Tribeca Review: Sam Waterson and Kristen Stewart Get Philosophical in Tim Blake Nelson's 'Anesthesia'

READ MORE: The 2015 Indiewire Tribeca Bible: Every Review, Interview and News Item Posted During Run of Festival The binary experiences of feeling pain and being numb permeate Tim Blake Nelson's "Anesthesia." Through the actor-turned-filmmaker's previous directorial efforts -- which include 2001's "O," a teen adaptation of Shakespeare's "Othello," and 2009's "Leaves of Grass," which utilizes Plato's Socratic dialogues while swiping its title from a Walt Whitman poem -- we know that Nelson is a student of varying high-brow styles of literature. In the ensemble drama "Anesthesia," he tries to implement not only his idols' eloquent use of...

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