"I'd been watching many recent films with fast cuts, frenetic pacing and jangly, intense music, so I was struck by Train Dreams's meditative pace—it has been compared to the films of Terrence Malick—with a gentle score by the National's Bryce Dessner."
"She had just watched one of last year's big films which carried famous names, plenty of hype, and promised to generate lots of debate and emerged feeling despondent about it as well as the state of cinema. It was a film that, like so many she had recently encountered, contained only empty provocations that amounted to nothing."
Train Dreams is Clint Bentley's adaptation of Denis Johnson's novella, following Robert Grainier through early 1900s Idaho. The film employs an omniscient narrator and meditative pacing reminiscent of Terrence Malick's work, accompanied by a gentle score by Bryce Dessner. Robert drifts purposelessly until falling in love with free-spirited Gladys, with whom he has a daughter. To support his family, Robert works as a logger alongside itinerant men, including William H. Macy's character Arn. The cinematography captures verdant landscapes and majestic trees being felled. The film stands apart from recent cinema dominated by fast cuts and frenetic pacing, offering instead a contemplative exploration of human connection and purpose.
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