Leave No Trace

classified PG
Film

Please note: This was screened in Aug 2018

Director
Debra Granik
Cast
Ben Foster, Jeff Kober, Dale Dickey
Details
109 mins, 2018, USA
Primary language
English

Winter's Bone director Debra Granik returns with this powerful, haunting film about a 13-year-old girl living off the grid with her war vet father.

Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie gives an incredible breakthrough performance as Tom, a teenager who has been living in the Oregon woods with her troubled father Will (Ben Foster), from an early age. Camped in the forest, they are peaceful, lo-tech survivalists, perfectly attuned to each other and the natural world. When a chance encounter blows their cover and social services intervene, the pair escape on a perilous journey back to the wilderness, where they are finally forced to confront their conflicting desires and re-evaluate their relationship...

A film of pure grace and power, this is a masterful portrait of people and communities living off the grid - indeed, some critics have said this is the film Captain Fantastic "should have been".


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