"In "Rebuilding," a Colorado cowboy sifts through the ashes of the life that once sustained him, struggling to find a way forward after wildfires take his family farm. In U.S. theaters Nov. 7, via Bleecker Street, this elegiac story of one rancher's journey through an environmentally devastated American West is Max Walker-Silverman 's achingly tender second feature, following "A Love Song.""
"His debut film, about two childhood sweethearts who reunite decades later for one night at a lake in the mountains, shares with this one a patient attention to interactions between character and landscape, mapping the beauty and harshness of southwest Colorado onto the rugged features and gentle dispositions of people who call it home. There's profound loneliness to his chosen protagonists, but a kind of hope as well, born of the resilience-you might call it true grit-their communities long ago instilled in them."
Dusty, a Colorado cowboy, loses his family farm to wildfires and must rebuild his life amid climate-driven devastation. Displaced to a FEMA camp, Dusty navigates uncertainty while finding community among others who lost homes. He slowly reconnects with his estranged young daughter after a divorce that had separated them, confronting past priorities and imagining an unexpected future. The narrative maps the beauty and harshness of southwest Colorado onto characters shaped by landscape, portraying loneliness tempered by community resilience and a quiet hope rooted in long-standing rural grit. The project premiered at Sundance and competed for the Crystal Globe at Karlovy Vary.
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