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.