Wind River (15)
Directed by Taylor Sheridan.
Starring Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen, Graham Greene, Martin Sensmeier, Gil Birmingham and Jon Bernthal. 107 mins.
Scandi-noir comes to the Native American reservation in this directorial debut by the writer of Sicario and hell or high water. There are bodies half buried in snow, a miss matched investigation duo, a hero haunted by something in his past and vast, white, forbidding terrain; but no subtitles. After arriving at a blizzard set Wyoming wearing little more than a t-shirt, FBI “little girl” Olsen decides she might benefit from a little local knowledge in the shape of tracker Renner, who has a personal motivation to find out who raped and murdered the girl whose barefoot corpse was found in the snow.
It's an uncommonly good crime drama. Its route takes in a selection of cliched moments but the journey between them have unusual depth and honesty, and the social agenda is slipped in very discretely. Inspired by True Events title cards usually come with their own pinch of salt but this made up story delivers something real.
Directed by Taylor Sheridan.
Starring Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen, Graham Greene, Martin Sensmeier, Gil Birmingham and Jon Bernthal. 107 mins.
Scandi-noir comes to the Native American reservation in this directorial debut by the writer of Sicario and hell or high water. There are bodies half buried in snow, a miss matched investigation duo, a hero haunted by something in his past and vast, white, forbidding terrain; but no subtitles. After arriving at a blizzard set Wyoming wearing little more than a t-shirt, FBI “little girl” Olsen decides she might benefit from a little local knowledge in the shape of tracker Renner, who has a personal motivation to find out who raped and murdered the girl whose barefoot corpse was found in the snow.
It's an uncommonly good crime drama. Its route takes in a selection of cliched moments but the journey between them have unusual depth and honesty, and the social agenda is slipped in very discretely. Inspired by True Events title cards usually come with their own pinch of salt but this made up story delivers something real.
