Review of Winter's Bone (2010) by Irvin C — 15 Feb 2013

Well, better late than never. I finally caught up with Jennifer Lawrence's breakout performance. She is simply wonderful as a teenage girl fighting to take care of her siblings and keep her house as tries to find her missing father in the run from the law.

This film feels a bit like a European film but set in rural America. Director Debra Granik does a great job of maintaining tension and atmosphere throughout the film. One of the unique things about this film, I find, is that there's a sense of a bigger story going on but you only get to see a sliver of it from the point of view of Lawrence's character.

Definitely a solid piece of filmmaking.