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Based on the beloved novella by Denis Johnson, Train Dreams is the moving portrait of Robert Grainier (Golden Globe-nominee Joel Edgerton), whose life unfolds during an era of unprecedented change in early 20th century America. Orphaned at a young age, Robert grows into adulthood among the towering forests of the Pacific Northwest, where he helps expand the nation's railroad empire alongside men as unforgettable as the landscapes they inhabit. After a tender courtship, he marries Gladys (Academy Award-nominee Felicity Jones) and they build a home together, though his work often takes him far from her and their young daughter. When his life takes an unexpected turn, Robert finds beauty, brutality and newfound meaning for the forests and trees he has felled.
Score: 3.9
98%
“A gorgeous meditation on
America, ably shouldered by one of Joel Edgerton's very best
performances, Train Dreams takes on mythic proportions while
maintaining an intimate emotional delicacy.”
Rotten Tomatoes
“A birth-to-death character
study, ‘Train Dreams' is a meditation on the beauty of everyone and everything,
how we are connected to both the earth and those who walked it before us.”
RogerEbert.com
“A Western epic of
breathtaking visual splendor and formidable lyrical cinematic poetry, it’s a
work containing all the wondrous, devastating layers of an entire life, which
it explores with a gentle grace without hiding from the agony that comes with
it.”
TheWrap
“Part western, part romance,
part philosophical treatise, this Sundance Film Festival stunner also feels
like the greatest Terrence Malick film that Malick never made.”
The Times
