REBUILDING
Type: dramatic ✦✦ 1/2
Direction: Max Walker-Silverman. With Josh O’Connor, Lily Latorre, Meghann Fahy, Kali Reis
Dusty (Josh O’Connor), a cowboy and farmer in Colorado, has lost everything in a devastating fire. We see him sell the cattle he has left and review, with the most melancholy look that the British actor has ever produced, what remains of his life: burnt trees, parched earth, the graves of his ancestors.
Dusty refuses to share his fate with that of the small community who, like him, live in state-provided caravans (“They’re not real neighbors”). And he would also be disinterested in his teenage daughter if his ex-wife didn’t kindly get in the way.
Josh O’Connor, standing center, in a scene from “Rebuilding” (photo by Jesse Hope)
Walker-Silverman, on his second film (which went to Sundance and Alice in the City), it speaks to us of the possibility of rebirth (the “rebuilding” of the title), only if we choose to abandon individualism.
An optimistic film that overturns the stereotype: the cowboy here is not a macho man, but a man who chooses to take care. Of its space, of what it represents and even of others
LEGEND
✦ modest
✦✦ good
✦✦✦ excellent
✦✦✦✦ masterpiece
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