This week we remain with the American director Kelly Reichardt and the film she made after Meek’s Cutoff (last week’s recommendation). Shot on location in southern Oregon, Night Moves (2013) is a haunting tale of what may happen when young people with the heart and mind in the right place confront the environmental destructiveness of a capitalism out of bounds. Reichardt’s film builds its tension through the web of mistakes and distrusts among its three protagonists and the cumulative impact of seemingly minor moments and, but it is ultimately her uncanny sense of composition and pacing that will put you into that (pleasurable) state of anxiety typical of good thrillers. And the plethora of moral and political questions raised by Night Moves is a most definite plus. We would love to know what you think after watching this gorgeously composed film.
More from the movie corner of Graziella: Night Moves
Watch Night Moves on Kanopy here.
