American miserabilism
It’ll be a crying shame if you don’t take the opportunity to catch this masterful movie
This decent, flat-toned, earnestly naturalistic film is a typical Sundance laureate.
Granik tells her story not as a thriller, but a naturalistic drama, in which the thrills are the more potent for being unexpected, and she uses keening country music to underscore the stoicism and melancholy of this brutal, amoral world.
A heroine with true grit, and a genuine talent to match.
Winter's Bone really is one to treasure, for its skilled, economical storytelling, its committed sense of place and its full-blooded playing.
An icy blast of power.
It’s not the masterpiece that some have claimed, but it will be fascinating to see what Granik comes up with next.
IF there's one must-see movie of the week it's Winter's Bone.
The film delivers the basic pleasures of a thriller while transcending genre restrictions to become something more deeply affecting.
A vivid reworking of Daniel Woodrell’s novel that brings the book’s conflicted heroine to searing life in a piece of unhurried filmmaking too rarely seen these days.
Jennifer Lawrence on Winter's Bone
The Dead of Winter
Interview: Jennifer Lawrence, actress
Interview: Debra Granik, writer and director
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