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‘Train Dreams’ Review: A Career-Best Performance From Joel Edgerton Makes A Poetic Slice Of Americana Soar [Sundance]
“There were once passages to the old world,” rues the plaintive narration by Will Patton over an early scene in “Train Dreams.” The early twentieth-century milieu of Clint Bentley’s film is now the old world to its viewers, but there’s no need to lament as the unseen storyteller does. The screen here is a portal that presents an opportunity to return to a bygone era in America—and feel it viscerally and visually. Continue reading ‘Train Dreams’ Review: A Career-Best Performance From Joel Edgerton Makes A Poetic Slice Of Americana Soar [Sundance] at The Playlist.
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“There were once passages to the old world,” rues the plaintive narration by Will Patton over an early scene in “Train Dreams.” The early twentieth-century milieu of Clint Bentley’s film is now the old world to its viewers, but there’s no need to lament as the unseen storyteller does. The screen here is a portal that presents an opportunity to return to a bygone era in America—and feel it viscerally and visually.
