Meek's Cutoff PG
The Road to Civilisation is Not Always Civilised
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 44 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: September 13, 2011
- Originally Released: 2010
- Label: Oscilloscope
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Zoe Kazan, Michelle Williams, Bruce Greenwood, Paul Dano & Will Patton | |
Performer: | Shirley Henderson | |
Directed by | Kelly Reichardt | |
Edited by | Kelly Reichardt | |
Screenwriting by | Jonathan Raymond & Jon Raymond | |
Composition by | Jeff Grace | |
Cinematography by | Christopher Blauvelt | |
Director of Photography: | Christopher Blauvelt |
Entertainment Reviews:
There are stretches that are, frankly, boring. But the vivid details and intimacy you develop with these travelers sticks with you, leaving you in awe of the insane feats people had to accomplish in order for us to enjoy the world we know today.
Miami Herald
[T]his story is one in which the audience will become so invested in the unvarnished struggle, the hardship... that one can't help but walk away from the theatre with a new sense of understanding and appreciation for America's history.
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Behind The Lens
Kelly Reichardt, the director of this tough, quiet revelation of a movie, films it in an uninflected style that makes everything feel at once mundane and mysterious.
New York Times
Certainly, the film is grim in many ways, but there is also great, almost astonishing, beauty. . .
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The Tyee (British Columbia)
I was hypnotized from the opening sequence.
Philadelphia Weekly
Rating: 4/5 --
[Director Kelly] Reichardt, who previously directed Williams in Wendy and Lucy, shows us with great subtlety the physical and emotional drama here, one that's properly underplayed, given the strictures of the time.
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Washington Examiner
Imagine a collaboration between John Ford and Wallace Stevens and you might get a sense of what Kelly Reichardt pulls off here: a sincere re-creation of the pioneer experience, brought to life through careful, often unexpected detail.
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Chicago Reader
Product Description:
A braggart meets his match in a courageous woman in this period drama from independent filmmaker Kelly Reichardt. It's 1845, and Stephen Meek (Bruce Greenwood) is a boastful, rough-hewn wilderness guide who has been hired by three families who want to start new lives on the other side of Oregon's Cascade Mountains. Meek constantly tells his charges that he knows the Oregon Trail like the back of his hand, but when they veer off for a shortcut he says is foolproof, they soon find themselves in forbidding territory, without water and with Indians on the horizon. While the men of the party travel with Meek, their wives are made to follow them in a separate wagon, and Emily Tetherow (Michelle Williams), the strong-willed wife of Solomon Tetherow (Will Patton), begins openly questioning Meek's competence among the other women, especially her friend Millie Gately (Zoe Kazan). While making their way through the wilderness, the party happens upon a Cayuse Indian (Rod Rondeaux); Meek captures the Indian and proposes they kill him, but Emily bravely speaks up for him, believing he has the right to live and perhaps the knowledge to lead them safely over the mountains. MEEK'S CUTOFF was an official selection at the 2010 New York Film Festival.
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