Review of Wind River (2017) by Ken C — 07 Oct 2017
Writer turned director, Taylor Sheridan makes excellent use of open spaces and haunting quiet Wind River, a Native American reservation high in the bone-white Wyoming wilderness - a place of "snow and silence" as as Cory Lambert (Jeremy Renner), a local game tracker, evocatively puts it.
One day Lambert discovers a dead teenage body, far from the nearest man-made structure, while he's hunting a mountain lion that's been worrying the local livestock. Teaming-up with a rookie FBI agent Jane Banner (Elizabeth Olsen) is scrambled from Las Vegas to assume control of the homicide case. A chilly noir brings out the best of Jeremy Renner. Less about mystery, Wind River is a film about this harsh landscape towards all who trudge across it, even Native Americans themselves are force corralled here.
This review of Wind River (2017) was written by Ken C on 07 Oct 2017.
Wind River has generally received very positive reviews.
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