One reason Meek’s Cutoff was a quantum leap for Reichardt was because of her ingenious use of the camera, which continues here. The choice seems to be between frustrating paralysis and some sort of angry seizure. Smiling and teasing while spouting terrifying environmental facts, she matter-of-factly concludes, “It’ll all go fast in the end.” As for Sarsgaard, he’s here to do what he does best: make everyone uncomfortable with his satyr grin.
She, in turn, deflects him with a coquettish brand of pixie doom. Eisenberg’s Josh – his curly mop of hair piled on his head like Pacific Northwest moss – is impatient and condescending, particularly to Fanning’s Dena. As they go through their preparations, Reichardt deftly teases out the tensions among them. The plot to blow up the dam counts as the latter. Reichardt tellingly makes an abrupt cut during one audience member’s question, putting an exclamation point on their collective impotence.įor Josh, Dena and Harmon, then, the choice seems to be between frustrating paralysis and some sort of angry seizure. Early on, Josh and Dena attend a screening of an activist eco-documentary (projected on a bed sheet, of course) which ends with the call: “Let the revolution begin!” Afterwards, however, the crowd seems at a loss during the Q&A session.
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The movie centers on a trio of earnest eco-crusaders: Josh (Jesse Eisenberg), a scowling hired hand at a local farm Dena (Dakota Fanning), a sarcastic assistant at a health spa and Harmon (Peter Sarsgaard), an off-the-grid loose cannon who has the explosives experience their scheme requires.Īs depicted by Reichardt, the community to which these three belong is at once deeply disturbed by the state of the environment and utterly perplexed over how to tackle the problem.
Cleverly and claustrophobically, Night Moves internalizes an external crisis. In telling the story of three environmental activists who plot to blow up a hydroelectric dam in Oregon, she brings complicated human dilemmas into the climate-change crossfire.
Night Moves is another stealth drama from director Kelly Reichardt ( Old Joy, Wendy and Lucy, the masterful Meek’s Cutoff).
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