Train Dreams

Matt Roush says...

A remarkable film about a seemingly unremarkable man of the early 20th century, director and co-writer Clint Bentley’s sensitive adaptation of Denis Johnson’s acclaimed novella tells a deceptively simple fable of love, loss, and endurance set against the soaring backdrop of the Pacific Northwest. Joel Edgerton (Dark Matter) stars as stoic logger Robert Grainier, who finds great joy with his wife (Felicity Jones) and child but also crushing grief and existential despair when confronted with the violence of his fellow man and the cruel caprices of Mother Nature. Bentley explains: “Robert doesn’t do anything that alters the course of history. He doesn’t fight in some great battle or create an invention that changes people’s lives, and yet he lives a very deep and rich life.”

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