Summary
ANYONE still wondering what to see at the Edinburgh Film Festival should put the quietly impressive US indie, Winter's Bone, near the top of their must-see list. The winner of the grand jury and scriptwriting prizes at Sundance in January, Debra Granik's gritty adaptation of Daniel Woodrell's 2006 novel is a tense, occasionally wrenchingly violent, thriller, wrapped up in a sensitive and sharply observed portrait of an often maligned and misrepresented section of American society.
Like Granik's only other film, Down to the Bone - a winner at Sundance in 2004 - it features a powerful central performance from a soon-to-be-star. Last time it was the then little-known Vera Farmiga (Up In the Air) wowing critics with her raw performance as a working- class mother in upstate New York battling drug addiction. Now it is 19-year-old Jennifer Lawrence (Charlize Theron's daughter in The Burning Plain) who is garnering the plaudits under Granik's guidance.See the full content of this document
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Close to the Bone
Mixing strength, stubbornness and girlish vulnerability, she plays Ree Dolly, the eldest child of a poverty-stricken family in the Ozark Mountains in south Missouri. Life there is tough at the best of times; however, it becomes even tougher when her crystal- meth dealing father vanishes after putting their ...
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