Wind River may be their home, but this is Lambert’s story. One is that Sheridan, for all his good intentions, shuffles the Indian characters – from Greene as the sheriff, to Gil Birmingham as a grieving father, to Julia Jones as Lambert’s estranged native wife – off to the side. And the role he has provided for Renner is the kind of meaty opportunity that an actor of Renner’s talent can make into something particularly special.īut there are two big problems here.
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He proves capable of portraying sharp scenes of quick violence, of which the movie has two. Sheridan deserves credit for how he uses the landscape to underscore both the beauty, and the desolation, felt by the characters who live on the reservation. Once Banner starts paying attention to Lambert, who can see what the land has to tell him, they fairly quickly stumble onto what happened. Sheridan, the screenwriter-turned-director who wrote the scripts for the movies “Sicario” and “Hell or High Water,” doesn’t clutter his plotline with a lot of digressions. And pretty soon, the two of them – assisted by the tribal police chief (played by the always dependable Graham Greene) – are on the trail. Though woefully unprepared, Banner is smart enough to ask Lambert – a hunter/tracker employed by the wildlife service – for help. But as a sign of either bureau budget restrictions, lack of available personnel, lack of interest or a blend of all three, the agent who shows up is young Jane Banner ( Elizabeth Olsen). Since the incident has occurred on federal land, an FBI agent is called in. And so the investigation into her death begins. Later, a character named Cory Lambert ( Jeremy Renner) discovers the woman’s frozen corpse. Set on the Wind River Indian Reservation of West-central Wyoming – but filmed in the scenic mountains just outside Park City, Utah – “Wind River” begins with a haunting scene: As a female narrator recites a poem, we watch a young woman running, as if for her life, barefoot across a snowy landscape. On the surface, what Sheridan has given us is a well-made, standard murder mystery. And a good case in point is Taylor Sheridan’s film “Wind River.” It’s a fair question, I guess, even if – sometimes – there is no easy answer. But I never could figure out whether you liked the movie or not. One question critics tend to get is, “Hey, I read your review. But it had a different effect on me, a fact I tried to explain in the review that I wrote for Spokane Public Radio: The movie "Wind River" is getting a number of good reviews. As for my take on the film, which several readers disagreed with, I stand my ground. I'm not sure what was going on in my brain as I posted this review. As more than one reader pointed out, the reservation is in Wyoming. And I even misidentified the actress who played Jeremy Renner's wife.
In Wind River, Birmingham delivers a quietly devastating performance as the dead girl’s father.Note: In the original version of this review, I wrote that the Wind River Indian Reservation was in Colorado. You could imagine a younger version of Hell or High Water’s Jeff Bridges in the Lambert role but another actor from that movie makes it to this one: Gil Birmingham, who played junior partner to Bridges’ senior and retiring Texas Ranger. He’s a taciturn wildlife officer and experienced woodsman, who works as a hunter eliminating predator animals deemed a threat to local residents and their livestock. The fleeing girl was Natalie (Kelsey Asbille) an 18-year-old Native American living on the Wind River Indian Reservation, where her frozen body was found by Cory Lambert (Jeremy Renner).
The intense winter frost is never far from anybody’s mind here, especially when it hits smack dab into the deep freeze of bureaucracy and cross-cultural hostilities. Cinematographer Ben Richardson invests it with a look of savage grace, just as he did for the waterlogged hinterland of Beasts of the Southern Wild. It’s the reverse this time, in a movie set in a place that’s considered the most remote territory of the United States. Sheridan was the pen behind last year’s Oscar-nominated Hell or High Water, a bank-heist western where the extremes of man exceeded that of nature. Thus begins the deceptively simply detective thriller Wind River, an auspicious directorial debut for writer/director Taylor Sheridan that premiered at Sundance earlier this year. The night chill is cold enough to burst lungs, making her final gasps all the more painful. 18AĪ bloodied and barefoot young woman runs in mortal terror across a snowy Wyoming wilderness that resembles a lunar landscape. Starring Elizabeth Olsen, Jeremy Renner, Graham Greene, Gil Birmingham, Tantoo Cardinal, Kelsey Asbille and Jon Bernthal.
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