Jack and I liked this story of a father and daughter living in the woods of Portland, Oregon. Ben Foster (last blogged for Hell or High Water) and Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie (now 18 years old, she's new to me) are terrific as the pair who make occasional trips to town but yearn for their solitary life. Dale Dickey (most recently in these pages for Being Flynn) makes an appearance in the second act.
Director Deborah Granik co-wrote the script with Anne Rosellini (they performed the same duties on Winter's Bone). The movie is based on the 2008 novel My Abandonment by Peter Rock, which, in turn, is inspired by a pair found in Forest Park, Portland, in 2004.
Cinematographer Michael McDonough (last blogged for Darling Companion, which was shot in mountainous Utah and Colorado; he also shot Winter's Bone) gives us gorgeous pictures of Eagle Fern Park in Eagle Creek OR.
Though he hasn't yet shown up in this blog, I've heard the music of composer Dickon Hinchliffe in Married Life (2007), Last Chance Harvey, Cold Souls, and Winter's Bone, among his several dozen projects. You can stream the score to this movie on spotify and Apple Music.
We've seen versions of this story before, e.g. Captain Fantastic, but this is really good. Even before noticing that it has a perfect 100% from critics on Rotten Tomatoes (and 82 from audiences), we streamed it a couple of weeks ago due to its availability (scroll down on this page) and its number of nominations on my running list.
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