Where does the time go? Clint Bentley ’s follow-up to 2021’s impressive but annoyingly little-seen Jockey is a moving, masterful study of a life without such measure, a working man’s blues that begins at the end of the late 19 th century, just as civilization is trying to get its act together, and stops short of the moon landing in 1969. In style, Terrence Malick’s films are an obvious reference, but Train Dreams is much less abstract than that, despite its golden-hour glories and verdant views of nature in the wild. At its core, Bentley’s film is about a man trying to make sense of the tragic hand that fate has dealt him, and, finally, accepting the mystery of it all with a hard-earned, beatific grace.

Gently expounded with a God-like omniscience by an unseen narrator (Will Pat

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