The big sick takes top prize at nantucket film festival the jeremy renner starrer wind river, written and directed by taylor sheridan, was the runnerup. Retrouvez les 359 critiques et avis pour le film wind river, realise par taylor sheridan avec jeremy renner, elizabeth olsen, kelsey asbille. With the film, sheridan successfully delivers another crime drama with the everpresent inclusion of the deep human introspection he is known for. Wind river is full of vast, scrubby expanses that give way to pristine blankets of white, interrupted only by a snowmobile slashing a solitary path. You can hear the crunch of snow and feel the bitter chill, which runs so deep that it can be deadly. Nearly all the people we meet in wind river are victims of this unforgiving terrain, or of not so long past massacres of native americans.
Wind river lures viewers into a characterdriven mystery with smart writing, a strong cast, and a skillfully rendered setting that delivers the bitter chill promised by its title. With excellent castincluding many native american actors the film vibrantly brings to life a thrilling tale of forging morality in extreme nature. Film festival award winner in the dog days of august is either the most nitwitted or most visionary member of the. His latest film, wind river, marks his first time directing one of his own scripts, and its a film that certainly doesnt disappoint, as it tells a tale of vengeance and. Jul 31, 2017 with the film, sheridan successfully delivers another crime drama with the everpresent inclusion of the deep human introspection he is known for. Fish and wildlife service agent and divorced parent who makes his living huntingkilling predators that prey on the animals and farmland of the wind river indian reservation in wyoming.
Sep 03, 2017 elizabeth olsen and jeremy renner discuss the film wind river duration. Named after an indian reservation of the same name, wind river is the place where the corpse of a young native american girl kelsey asbille is found, barefoot and frozen solid. As the film goes on, we meet person after person that has had someone taken from them by the harsh living conditions. Those who remain find ways of coping or finding oblivion and the women on the reservation are particularly at risk.
When we first see jeremy renner s cory lambert, a tracker wellversed in the wyoming wilds, hes lying on his belly in the snow, camouflaged with his rifle, picking off wolves that have been preying on sheep. With kelsey asbille, jeremy renner, julia jones, teo briones. Theres a quiet, somber mood over much of the film that captures the isolation of the snowcovered fields, forests and mountains of. Wind river is a decent, if flawed, directorial effort from sheridan that showcases his strength as an actors director, more than as a writer corey lambert jeremy renner is a u. Par son ton sombre et caustique, wind river fait penser aux films des freres coen, avec une dose. Based on the memories of a reallife pony express rider, wind river is a competent modern western modern in the sense that the native americans are not necessarily the savage villains that is geared for families but is saddled with an undeserving pg rating for violence. The film stars jeremy renner and elizabeth olsen as a u. Fish and wildlife service tracker and an fbi agent, respectively, who try to solve a murder on the wind river indian reservation in wyoming. Taylor sheridan, the screenwriter of last years socially conscious crime drama hell or high water, proves an undeniably strong director with his second effort in that job, wind river. A veteran hunter helps an fbi agent investigate the murder of a young woman on a wyoming native american reservation. East of boulder flats, deep into the vast and unforgiving white territory of the wind river indian reservation, the seasoned game tracker, cory lambert, discovers the frozen body of the young native american, natalie.
Director taylor sheridan poses for a portrait to promote the film, wind river, at the music lodge during the sundance film festival on saturday, jan. Now, hes directing for only the second time as well as writing with wind river, which feels very much of a piece with those two previous films. Wind river r16, 107mins directed by taylor sheridan. After writing such acclaimed films as sicario and hell or high water, taylor sheridan now takes on the third leg of the modern american frontier by not only writing but also directing wind river.
Wind river is a moody film about paternal vengeance. Wind river is a chilling thriller that follows a rookie fbi agent elizabeth olsen who teams up with a local game tracker with deep community ties and a haunted past jeremy renner to investigate the murder of a local girl on a remote native american reservation in the hopes of solving her mysterious death. As in that movie, there is plenty of genre grit and action, but wind rivers examination of race, gender and grief are just as compelling as any standoff. Wind river is a stark look at life on the edge of an imposing wilderness, where the rule of law is eclipsed by the laws of nature. Sightunseen, my expectation not unfairly, i think was that wind river would be a terrific screenplay with undistinguished directing holding it back. Set in winter, the thriller mystery explores the death of a young arapaho woman on the reservation and social conditions there. Wind river is the kind of wellacted, sharplywritten, low key murder mystery that could easily slip under the radar of summer moviegoers.
Writerdirector taylor sheridans wind river is a stark and beautiful and haunting 21st century western thriller, filled with memorable visuals and poetic dialogue and scenes of sudden, shocking, brutal violence. Wind river is a chilling thriller that follows a rookie fbi agent elizabeth olsen who teams up with. Wind river, his second film as director, again plays with expectations. While the mystery isnt a mcguffin, and in fact is resolved in as exciting a manner as any crazy studio twist, the real villain in wind river is the land itself. Starring jeremy renner, elizabeth olsen, graham greene, gil birmingham and jon bernthal. Parents need to know that wind river is a very violent crimemurder story set on a native american reservation in wyoming. Theres a quiet, somber mood over much of the film that captures the isolation of the snowcovered fields, forests and mountains of wyoming. Wind river is set in the desolate, wintry hills of an indian reservation in wyoming, kicking things off in the dead of the night with a teenage native american girl running barefoot across the tundra. After all, the screenplay was by taylor sheridan, whose first film as writer was 2015s excellent sicario, and whose second was 2016s sturdy, elegantly classical hell or high water. Sheridan, who also directs, does well to not aestheticize the poverty and sorrow of life on wind river reservation.
Age of ultron costar jeremy renner in taylor sheridans directorial feature film debut, wind river. The idea of making a thriller based around the epidemic of missing and murdered indigenous women is startling. Columbus, step, wind river this week on indie movie guide alicia covers two avengers in the snow, an inspiring dance documentary and an exquisitely designed film. Wind river is the latest extension of taylor sheridans ongoing quest to examine some of americas most embattled corners and the dignity of the people who. Sicario and hell or high water were always going to be a tough doubleact to follow. Aug 11, 2017 for all its strengths, wind river stumbles in its final act, as it struggles to balance its themes of solemn grief, macho retribution, and gender and cultural enlightenment. While the former sometimes suffers in service of the latter, the film is, in the end, greater than the sum of its parts. Wind river is a generic and uninteresting thriller that lacks the strengths of sheridans celebrated first and second features. Movie clip look what it takes from us indie movie guide. Written and directed by taylor sheridan, it stars jeremy renner, elizabeth olsen, graham greene and gil birmingham. Writerdirector taylor sheridan hell or high water has created a film thats brutal and poetic. Wind river is the place where the corpse of a young native american girl kelsey asbille is found.
Aug 11, 2017 wind river is the latest extension of taylor sheridans ongoing quest to examine some of americas most embattled corners and the dignity of the people who carry on within them. Wind river aspires to be something of a borderland noir where the border is between americans, and while this prosaically linear murder mystery has no real distinct style, there are moments at the end where it make its most obvious points feel alive. Theres a brutal rape scene, plus fighting, beating, and bludgeoning, lots of gunsshooting, gory dead bodies, and plenty of blood. Yes, the film opens with the mysterious death of a native girl kelsey asbille and by the end we do discover what happened to her, but the tone of wind river is uniquely its own. In january 2016, it was announced that olsen would team up with her avengers. A moody procedural, wind river is heavy with symbolism from the startperhaps, too much so. Watch those two, or maybe give 1992s thunderheart a long. We meet people whose loved ones died or simply disappeared.
Hell or high water scribe taylor sheridan makes his debut behind the camera with wind river, a wyomingset mystery starring jeremy renner and elizabeth olsen. Wind river is a 2017 neowestern murder mystery film written and directed by taylor sheridan. Fish and wildlife tracker teams up with an fbi rookie to solve a killing on american indian lands. Aug 04, 2017 wind river is the kind of wellacted, sharplywritten, low key murder mystery that could easily slip under the radar of summer moviegoers. Finally, one movie critic, robbie collin of the uks daily telegraph wrote, wind river is a film about this landscapes hard indifference towards all who trudge across it sounds about right. Olsen attended new york universitys tisch school of the arts and the atlantic theater company and graduated in march 20 after six years of intermittent study. Wind river is a chilling thriller that follows a rookie fbi agent elizabeth olsen who teams up with a local game tracker with deep community ties and a haunted past jeremy renner to investigate. But, what sets wind river apart from both sicario and hell or high water aside from the fact that this one features sheridan himself in the this final piece to taylor sheridans modern western trilogy is as gloomy, as gutwrenching, and as effective as any other film in the batch. Gil birmingham, jon bernthal and graham greene also star.
For all its strengths, wind river stumbles in its final act, as it struggles to balance its themes of solemn grief, macho retribution, and gender and cultural enlightenment. He straightforwardly depicts its bitterness in a film with the most snow mobile. Its a flawed film, for sure, but flawed films can still do great things. Dga 2018 film and television nominations announced. Jan 22, 2017 hell or high water scribe taylor sheridan makes his debut behind the camera with wind river, a wyomingset mystery starring jeremy renner and elizabeth olsen. If those previous two films are any indication, this film looks to be a fitting end to that trilogy. Sep 14, 2017 wind river takes audiences to a place where these stories are real and, as banner discovers, impossible to ignore. Yet underneath its snow covered veneer is a film of strong political and social narrative, where issues ranging from the plight of native americans to sexism are tackled. Wind river is on the surface a genre film, and quite an exceptional one at that. Taylor sheridan shines as director of the superb wind river. Taylor sheridans wind river is a crime thriller that distinguishes itself both as an outdoor action film and as a nuanced multicharacter drama the central mystery of the story revolves around the violent death of a young woman whose battered body is found in snowy mountainous terrain on the wind river reservation in wyoming. Wind river is as much of a gritty crime thriller as it is a character study. Its flawed, to be sure, but it has a plangent, spacious savagery that lingers long after the credits roll. Wind river takes audiences to a place where these stories are real and, as banner discovers, impossible to ignore.
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