Winter's Bone (2010)
Posted by Admin on Sunday, October 17, 2010
Under: Drama
An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social
terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep
her family intact.It is quite astonishing what people are capable of when their survival
or way of life is threatened. In those moments, they are somehow able
to employ a level of courage, perseverance, and high intention that
they never knew they had. Such is the case for young Ree Dolly
(Jennifer Lawrence) in Debra Granik's The Winter's Bone, winner of the
Jury Prize for dramatic competition as well as the Waldo Salt Screen
writing Award at the Sundance Film Festival. Newcomer Lawrence, a
Kentucky native, is completely convincing as the 17-year-old Ree who
has endured much in her brief lifetime and has plenty of obstacles yet
to overcome. Living in poverty in a small house in the rural Missouri
Ozarks, near the Arkansas border, she has to cook, chop wood and do
whatever is necessary to care for her twelve-year old brother Sonny
(Isaiah Stone) and her six-year old sister Ashlee (Ashlee Thompson) as
well as look after her mother who is catatonic.
In : Drama