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Wind River
(2017),
Director: Taylor Sheridan, rated R for violence,
language
Nothing is harder to track than the truth.
 Starring: Jeremy
Renner, Elizabeth Olsen, Graham Greene, Kelsey Asbille; Gil
Birmingham, Julia Jones, Teo Briones, Apesanahkwat
DML Rating:
★★★★★★★★☆☆
- great
"The bad news is you're
never gonna be the same. You'll never be whole.
Not ever
again." – Corey
Lambert
Why watch this?
This cold, grim film tensely builds, and builds, to one hell of a climax.
Plot Summary: Set on
the remote Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming, a U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service tracker finds the frozen body of a young
Native American woman in the snow. An inexperienced FBI agent is
sent to investigate the potential homicide and teams up with the
tracker to navigate the difficult terrain and the local
community. Together, they work to uncover the truth behind the
woman's death.
Dad's Preview:
This popped up on Netflix so I gave it a whirl. Man, did it slap
me in the face like a frozen Wyoming snow squall! A Native American
girl is killed and it's up to wildlife tracker Cory Lambert, and
FBI agent Jan Banner, to find the murderer. This very
intelligent and character-driven story exposes still-occurring injustices
against Native Americans. Native woman, especially, go missing
way too much, with not much help from the law. The brutal, yet
satisfying, ending, caught me off-guard. Renner and Olsen deliver
powerful
performances.

Acacia Ent., Savvy
Media Holdings, Synergics Films, Thunder Road Pictures,
Film 44, The Fyzz Facility, Riverside Pictures, Voltage
Pictures, Wild Bunch,
Ingenious Media, Star Thrower Ent.; The Weinstein Company |