Meek's Cutoff

Director: Kelly Reichardt

2010 / 104min / 35mm

In 1845 Oregon, a group of pioneers looking for a new life find themselves instead wandering the wastes, with wary, hard-assed frontierswoman Michelle Williams having to forebear the incompetence of Bruce Greenwood’s windbag wagonmaster. Appropriately spare, raw-boned, and weather-beaten, this great 21st century western challenges the patriarchal narratives of its classical forebears while connecting to their tradition of visual poetry, shot in the towering Academy ratio.