Wildlife
First screened in November 2018
Director: Paul Dano. Cast: Ed Oxenbould, Carey Mulligan, Jake Gyllenhaal, Bill Camp, Zoe Margaret Colletti, John Walpole. Screenplay: Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan (based on the novel by Richard Ford).
Twitter Capsule:
I veered dramatically on this, ending up mostly impressed, save for the two star turns. Oxenbould, images, tone all great.
VOR:
③
Manages to explore small-town anomie through means and registers we don't always see. Its best scenes achieve unusual fusion with a teenage child's vantage.
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Not yet reviewed in full. Grade: B