Первые рецензии критиков на фильм "Meek’s Cutoff"
Meek’s Cutoff has received mostly positive reviews after its Venice premiere and Michelle’s performance is being praised, as usual. Here’s a sample of some of the reviews:
Meek’s Cutoff by Kelly Reichardt was an eerie and disturbing film, a western, of sorts, and a bleak one. It’s a film which has something of The Searchers in its DNA, and could also be compared to Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood, and there are even sense-memories of the children’s pioneer classic Little House on the Prairie, although in much grimmer form. it reminded me of something Gilbert Adair wrote about John Sayles’s austere movie Limbo, that it was a sort of North American movie-making which had managed to expunge every smidgen of Hollywood glitz.
The ending was something that divided audiences a little, but I look forward to returning to this fascinating, and tremendously well-made film when it is released here.
Source: The Guardian
The fact that ‘Meek’s Cutoff’, the new film by lauded American indie darling Kelly Reichardt, could loosely be called a ‘western’, suggests that the grassroots critical success of her previous two films – ‘Old Joy’ (2006) and ‘Wendy and Lucy’ (2008) – has allowed her to broaden her scope. Nevertheless, this is just as rich, nuanced, mysterious and low key as anything she’s made. Again she requires audiences to look beyond the images being shown and the words being spoken to discover the film’s concealed political suggestions and understated emotions. And yet, at times, ‘Meek’s Cutoff’ feels like Reichardt may have chosen to juggle too many balls, as she sometimes neglects to include the pithy inflections that give the characters in her earlier films such history, vulnerability and humanity.
Source: Time Out
And while the reports from Venice these past few days have featured plenty of cooing over Natalie Portman’s performance in Black Swan — a handful of UK critics plus a smaller handful of American critics have deemed it “Oscar-worthy,” thus it must be so! — Williams, in this determinedly un-diva-like role, is the one for me.
Williams underplays everything here: She’s not your stock flinty pioneer wife, with a nice, straight line for a mouth — all of her resolve, all of her common sense, comes from within, belying the sweet softness of her features. Meek’s Cutoff is Reichardt’s version of how the west was won, and with Williams’ help, she makes a hell of a case for the idea that it wasn’t just cowboy hats that built this country, but sunbonnets too.
Source: Movieline