Despite nearly getting pummeled on their way in into the press room (something that is not very common at Sundance, but apparently if you use celebs, the fans will come) Ben Affleck and Rosemarie DeWitt walked in from the cold and sat down to a roundtable to discuss their roles in the A-list indie drama, The Company Men directed by John Wells. Both talked about their roles in the film, the recession, and Affleck even talked about how to make good films and how not every film he’s done has been great – he used Daredevil as his example and I think the entire table was in agreement.

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Depending on how militant one is about their definition of “indie,” be it a budgetary classification or a faux-genre product of silent studio partners, Rachel Getting Married will either come across as scathingly honest or morbidly engineered. It’s an unsympathetic drama shot on video, chronicling a massive wedding weekend that’s just short enough on magic and emotional stability to feel true to life.

Its banquet tables are also packed to the walls with showbiz legends (Roger Corman lurks in certain scenes as a camera-wielding guest and Fab Five Freddy makes a toast), brought together by a veteran Hollywood player (director Jonathan Demme), with the whole act resting on a sordidly unflattering performance by a tabloid camera magnet (Anne Hathaway – read interview here).

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