Night Moves

Director: Kelly Reichardt

2013 / 112min / DCP

Oregon environmentalists Jesse Eisenberg and Dakota Fanning team up with ex-Marine Peter Sarsgaard in a plot to detonate a hydroelectric dam—then cope with an unexpected tragedy in the aftermath of their action—in Reichardt’s terrifically tense eco-thriller procedural, in which performances of maximum opacity are married to mise-en-scene of maximum clarity and precision. “Like a suspense movie held in suspense: a thriller that behaves as if it is a gentle, indie-arthouse film concerned only with evoking the beauty of nature… Gripping and disturbing.”—The Guardian

Introduction with fillmmaker Kelly Reichardt on Saturday, May 18th

Part of American Landscapes: The Cinema of Kelly Reichardt