Wildlife
In first-time director Paul Dano’s impressive debut, a carefully wrought adaptation of Richard Ford’s 1990 novel (co-written by Zoe Kazan), a family comes apart one loosely stitched seam at a time. Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan star as the parents; Ed Oxenbould is the adolescent son trying to hold the center.
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In the impressive directorial debut from actor Paul Dano (There Will Be Blood), a carefully wrought adaptation of Richard Ford’s 1990 novel, a family comes apart one loosely stitched seam at a time. We are in the lonely expanses of the American west in the mid-’60s. An affable man (Jake Gyllenhaal), down on his luck, runs off to fight the wildfires raging in the mountains. His wife (Carey Mulligan) strikes out blindly in search of security and finds herself running amok. It is left to their young adolescent son Joe (Ed Oxenbould) to hold the center. Co-written by Zoe Kazan, Wildlife is made with a sensitivity and at a level of craft that are increasingly rare in movies. An IFC Films release.
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Watch Paul Dano and Richard Ford discuss Wildlife at a Film Comment Free Talk.
[Carey Mulligan] gives the best performance of any I’ve seen in film this year.
—Glenn Kenny, The New York Times
Tender, gorgeous, and exquisitely understated.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire
Spellbinding. Don’t miss the blaze that Carey Mulligan ignites in Wildlife.
—Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
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