{"id":167702,"date":"2021-02-01T04:00:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T01:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/land-review-sundance-2021-film\/"},"modified":"2021-02-01T04:00:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T01:00:02","slug":"land-review-sundance-2021-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/land-review-sundance-2021-film\/","title":{"rendered":"#Land Review: Sundance 2021 \u2013 \/Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Land Review: Sundance 2021 \u2013 \/Film<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m here because I choose to be.\u201d So says Edee (Robin Wright<\/strong>) after she\u2019s been resuscitated from near-death in a secluded cabin tucked away in the\u00a0Rocky Mountains. As Land<\/em><\/strong> begins, we\u00a0see Edee come to the cabin under somewhat mysterious circumstances: she throws her cell phone in a trash can, and once she\u2019s moved-in she pays someone to come haul her car away so she has no real way to leave without getting lost wandering in all that wilderness. The cabin rests on the edge of a hill and has quite the view \u2013 all sprawling mountains blanketed with green and capp<\/a>ed with snow. It\u2019s a peaceful place \u2013 in theory. But Edee is not used to living like this, and though she came prepared with canned food and other essentials, it doesn\u2019t take long before she\u2019s in mortal danger.<\/p>\n

What brought Edee here? And did she come out here to die? She\u2019s haunted by flashes of her past \u2013 images of a silent husband and son who are always out of reach; memories of hopeless, tear-inducing fights with her sister (Kim Dickens<\/strong>). It\u2019s clear she wants to flee from the world she came from, and the picturesque wilderness seems like the perfect escape hatch.
\nIt isn\u2019t long before the harshness of reality comes crashing in. The roof of the cabin leaks; Edee doesn\u2019t know how to chop wood for her fire; and, worst of all, a bear comes storming into the cabin one day and devours all her provisions. Doom hovers above her head \u2013 but maybe that\u2019s what Edee wants? Maybe this is a long-game<\/a> suicide attempt. Even if it\u2019s not, it\u2019s clear that Edee isn\u2019t exactly clamoring to stay alive. She\u2019s cut herself off from everyone and everything. She\u2019s here because she chooses to be.<\/p>\n

Land<\/em>\u00a0marks Wright\u2019s feature directorial debut (she\u2019s directed episodes of House of Cards<\/em> before this), and the filmmaker\/star is wise enough to let the wilderness her character is stuck in do a lot of the heavy lifting. Working with cinematographer\u00a0Bobby Bukowski<\/strong>, Wright frequently cuts away to the widest shots possible \u2013 shots that encompass rolling hills and pristine, untouched woodlands as far as the eye can see. These quiet panoramas take your breath away, and it\u2019s easy to see why Wright has included so many shots of them. We get a genuine sense of how small Edee and her cabin are against the backdrop of all that hinterland.<\/p>\n

But pretty pictures only go so far, and while Wright is appropriately anguished as Edee,\u00a0Land<\/em>\u00a0begins to tread the same ground over and over. Could you argue that this is intentional; that Wright is deliberately portraying the monotony of it all? Sure, but that doesn\u2019t keep it from hurting the film\u2019s flow. Things pick up a bit when Edee makes a friend \u2013\u00a0Miguel Borras (Demi\u00e1n Bichir<\/strong>), a local hunter who helps save her life when he stumbles upon the dying Edee on the floor of her ransacked cabin.<\/p>\n

A tenderness blooms between the two. Is it a romance? No, there\u2019s no indication of that. Instead, it\u2019s a kind of knowing friendship. Miguel has lost people in his life too, and while he\u2019s not as self-destructive as Edee, his embracing of the outdoors is a similar escape. Miguel\u2019s friendship nurses Edee back to health but physically and spiritually, and a case could be made that there\u2019s something reductive here \u2013 that Edee was completely helpless until a big, strong man came along and taught her how to chop some wood. But I don\u2019t think that\u2019s what Wright and screenwriters Jesse Chatham<\/strong> and Erin Dignam<\/strong> are going for here. They\u2019re merely underscoring the idea that people need other people. In some capacity. Even the most\u00a0misanthropic of us longs to reach out and connect with at least\u00a0someone<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Bichir has become one of those actors I\u2019m always happy to see show up in films no matter what the circumstances and\u00a0Land<\/em> is a particularly nice showcase for his talents. He deftly blends a roughness with tenderness in a way that\u2019s endearing, and when\u00a0Land<\/em> is content enough to let Edee and Miguel sit by a fire and sing Tears for Fears songs off-key, it\u2019s quite charming.
\nAnd yet\u2026it all feels so slight. Once the friendship between Edee and Miguel is firmly established,\u00a0Land<\/em> drifts towards an inevitable conclusion that fails to pack the emotional punch Wright and company were clearly hoping for. Tearful confessions and big dramatic beats fail when contrasted with the emotions that swell up from the unblemished beauty of the landscape. It ultimately left me cold and feeling as if Land<\/em>\u2018s\u00a0central drama was unable to compete with nature.<\/p>\n

\/Film rating: 6.5 out of 10\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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