Review of Jeremiah Johnson (1972) by Ashley H — 21 Feb 2006
Robert Redford and Sydney Pollack team up (the 2nd of their 6 films together) for this powerful sage of a man whose search for contentment leads to back-breaking, mind-breaking hardship, and constant battle with hostile Native Americans.
Absolutely and specatularly beautiful, yet haunting adveture the film captures both epic scale of an unconquered nature, and the hard scrabbling struggle of a lone man trying to start a fire during a gale-force blizzard, cross a meadow knee-deep in snow or catching something to eat.
Filmed entirely on location in winter-time Utah, this movie captures on film Jeremiah Johnson's (Robert Redford) attempt in the mid-1800s to become a mountain man, seeking solitude in wilderness whose purity he never questioned.
This film is a masterpiece.
This review of Jeremiah Johnson (1972) was written by Ashley H on 21 Feb 2006.
Jeremiah Johnson has generally received very positive reviews.
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