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Train Dreams Draws Raves in Limited Release, Streams on Netflix Nov. 21

A new cinematography featurette underscores the film’s reverent sense of place rooted in hard-to-find old-growth locations.

Overview

  • The Clint Bentley–directed adaptation is currently in select theaters and will arrive on Netflix on Nov. 21.
  • Critics highlight Joel Edgerton’s performance as a career high, anchoring the film’s quiet portrait of an ordinary life.
  • A newly released featurette spotlights Adolpho Veloso’s cinematography, which reviewers are calling awards-worthy.
  • Bentley says the team struggled to locate authentic old-growth forests, ultimately filming in a small grove reached after a three-hour drive north of Spokane near the Canadian border.
  • Based on Denis Johnson’s celebrated novella, the film premiered at Sundance, played Toronto, and is now gathering awards-season momentum.