Filmmaking duo Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar tell low-key stories about dreamers. Teaming with actor Joel Edgerton, they went into the woods and emerged with something poetic. 0:00 0:00 1x

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“Train Dreams” is a film about America, a sumptuous from-the-ground-up vision of progress in the early to mid-20th century. It’s about railroads and bridges carved into untamed expanses of the Pacific Northwest, as well as the sacrifices and growing pains necessary to move the country toward modernity.

Yet “Train Dreams” is more specifically about one tiny dot in the pointillist painting of the country: a humble laborer, Robert Grainier (a soulful, understated Joel Edgerton), who does seasonal work for loggin

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