In 'Backgammon,' wordy mind games win out over an artistic streak
Lucien (Noah Silver) wakes up in someone else's rambling country mansion to the interpersonal wreckage of the night before in Francisco Orvañanos' "Backgammon." Soon enough, Lucien begins to piece it together and we're transported back in time to see just what went down with his blandly blond long-distance...