The Vancouverist
  • Home +
    • contact
  • Interviews - news
    • more interviews - news
  • Theatre
    • more theatre
  • Film
    • more film
  • Music
    • more music

Meek's Cutoff

5/13/2011

 
Picture
Don't watch a trailer, don't read a review, and don't listen to what your friends have to say about this movie, just go see it.
Meek's Cutoff is not your average western with fast paced action scenes, a smouldering dark stranger wrangling a beautiful feisty, cotton dressed spinster, and a nail biting shoot-em-up ending.

It's a slow moving thinker of a film with steady, realistic scenarios.

While I wouldn't recommend this film for everyone I'd have to say I did enjoy it, but then I liked The American.

The idea of using your own brain to work out the answers rather than being force fed a stream of mind numbing explanation was appealing. There is no translation of foreign language, soft muddled and at times quietly indistinguishable conversations, and no explanation of where the people have come from nor where they're going or why. All things that add rather than take away from the film.

The film comes across like a good book with endless possibilities. It's refreshing, admirably frustrating in its unwillingness to give anything up.

Then there's the cinematography. Christopher Bleauvelt is brilliant in his choices. He pulls the audience into the reality of the scenes, adding an essential cinematic edge to the dialogue and action, with minimal lighting and beautiful landscapes.

Meek's Cutoff isn't the most original nor delivers the most riveting performances of 2011 but if you're looking for something that's away from the recent mainstream of filmmaking it's definitely got what you're looking for.

Meek's Cutoff comes to theatres in Vancouver May 20. check your local listings for times.

Comments are closed.

    films

    Archives

    August 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    January 2012
    December 2011
    October 2011
    September 2011
    August 2011
    July 2011
    May 2011
    April 2011
    December 2010
    October 2010
    September 2010
    August 2010
    June 2010
    May 2010

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.