Review of Winter's Bone (2010) by Jason H — 04 Aug 2015
Set in the back road nooks of the Ozarks, I can say that having lived in for ten years in the very similar culture of the southern Appalachians, this film was all too real, accurate, and familiar. It's obvious that Ms.
Granik knew her setting and subject matter thoroughly, as she paints an otherwise beautiful landscape as depressing, gray, and nearly hopeless, and this is before adding the individual situation of the spectacular tour de force by Jennifer Lawrence, and her character Ree and family.
Their lives are bleak, and Ree is under the most intense kind of desperation, but manages to convincingly organic perseverance. The stellar John Hawkes is, as typical, a master of his craft, and the scenes with him and Lawrence are especially explosive, yet understated.
, as are the scenes with Lawrence and Dale Dickey, minus the understated . I cannot recommend this move enough, as everyone should be aware of the plight of the people who reside in this nearly third-world existence, right in our own backyard, and any fine acting enthusiast would be amiss to skip this textbook course of it, along with masterful writing and directing.
Don't miss it.
This review of Winter's Bone (2010) was written by Jason H on 04 Aug 2015.
Winter's Bone has generally received very positive reviews.
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