Friday, 09 October 2015: Meek's Cutoff
Friday, 09 October 2015, 20:00
Venue: (see Locations and Tickets for further details)
Programme category: Forest Row Film Society
Director: Kelly Reichardt, USA 2011, 104 mins, PG“This superbly made, austere film is Reichardt’s best yet …. and a powerful new addition to the western genre.” Peter Bradshaw The Guardian
In 1845, six settlers and their guide, Meek, set out across the desert on a two week journey. Five weeks later, low on supplies and effectively lost, they capture a Native American who, in return for his safety, agrees to lead them to water, thereby questioning Meek’s credibility.
“Employing … stylistic restraint and (a) sense of inexorably mounting tension, Reichardt creates a mood which is at once entirely believable and entrancingly otherworldly.” Tom Huddleston Time Out
Further reading
- Roger Ebert
- The Observer
- BFI 10 Great Modern Westerns
- New York Times
- Nashville Scene
- NPR
- Slate
- Interview with Kelly Reichardt
