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Train Dreams (2025),
Director: Clint Bentley, Rated PG-13
A Rare Thing of Beauty. -
The Playlist
  Starring:
Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones, Kerry Condon, William H. Macy,
Will Patton (narr.), Nathaniel Arcand, John Diehl, Paul
Schneider, Clifton Collins Jr., Alfred Hsing
DML Rating:
★★★★★★★★★☆
- near perfect
"The world needs a
hermit in the woods as much as a preacher in the pulpit." –
Claire Thompson
Why watch this?
With every quiet brushstroke, director Bentley creates a
masterpiece.
Plot Summary: In
early 20th-century America, stoic logger Robert Grainier builds
a life and family in the Pacific Northwest, only to face
devastating loss that haunts him, forcing him to confront his
grief amidst a rapidly changing world of brutal labor and
burgeoning progress.
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Dad's Preview:
Great films teach us about life, each in a different way. This
remarkable effort, based on the novel by Dennis Johnson, paints
a life-montage. Although the story is uniquely American, its
themes are universal: love, friendship, bigotry, loss,
redemption, death. It stops and takes its time to let little
moments develop. A simple gesture becomes a painful memory, then
a reason to keep on living. Here, like a quiet forest, we ache
to hear every word from real men and women. The dialog is
beautifully economical. These characters are real. And what a
performance by Joel Edgerton. We feel every ounce of pain on his
weary face. It stays with you. |
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