Nature is vast and indifferent. It is often cruel. And yet the sunrises and the sunsets are glorious, any life is extraordinary, and regardless of the time, place or circumstances of one’s birth, there are unfathomable wonders intermingled with pain and suffering.
Werner Herzog and Terrence Malick have spent their entire careers trying to articulate this with the medium of cinema. Director Clint Bentley (Jockey) clearly is aiming for the visual style and structure of the latter, possibly to his detriment by comparison. Nonetheless, the slow cinema experience on offer with Train Dreams is well worth the trip -- if only because the plot of the film, and the antagonist as well, revolves around the passage of time. Filmed almost entirely at either sundown...
[Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
Bengali (Bangladesh) · 
English (United States) ·