Here is a true hidden gem of a film, a meditative tone poem on what it means to live a good life. It is directed by Clint Bentley, and written by Bentley and Greg Kwedar, the creative team behind 2023’s similarly impressive and emotionally resonant Sing Sing . This effort, based on the novella by Denis Johnson, plays a little like a full-life novel, a Stoner or an East Of Eden , with thoughtful narration delivered by Will Patton reinforcing this notion.

Joel Edgerton’s Robert Grainier is the strong, silent type: a placid, contemplative man, possessing sad, soulful eyes, his expression largely masked by a thick beard. As the narration tells us, he enters the world quietly and inconsequentially as an orphan who never knew his parents. As a young man, he soon finds work as a logger

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