Lovely shot film, just lacking in a little substance

We’re told that we’re living in the ‘golden age of TV’ or the ‘Golden age of film’. I say we’re living in a golden age of cinematography. Andrew Hajek’s photography here is stunning. He captures the landscape of the Midwest all the way down to Texas as we follow Lily Gladstone’s character Tana, on a roadtrip to find a spot where her late Grandmother was photographed. This film seems largely under appreciated.

It’s clearly a personal film from writer director Morissa Maltz, and a very beautiful one. There’s not a great deal of plot to speak of, just a journey and some scenes are straight up documentary as real life stories of non actors are told, which gives the film an ultra neo realistic feel, I don't think I've seen this approcah before. Gladstone is pretty great and very natural, and I’m sure this performance went some way in cementing her casting in Scorsese’s Killer of the Flower Moon.

It's very reminiscent of the early films of Chloe Zhao.

6.9/10