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Very strong recommendation for "Winter's Bone." It escapes the usual clich�s

Posted by tinear on July 10, 2010 at 16:03:36:
in films about rural folks, i.e. they're all happy-go-lucky or they're all lazy, ignorant psychopaths.
A teenage girl has the responsibility for her mother and two siblings' welfare loaded onto her shoulders when her father unexpectedly goes missing. Was he murdered? Are the remaining family members safe?
As she realizes she alone cannot bear the weight, and increasingly inquires about her father's fate, she realizes some mysteries are better left alone.
This slow-simmering drama never loses its tight focus, its almost unrelenting pressure, to wander down side roads or fool-the-viewer plot twists. It's honest, straightforward storytelling which succeeds because of its plausibility and the skill of all the principal actors, all of whom appear so natural as to more approximate participants in a documentary than dramatic actors.
This is the finest American film I've seen in some time; there is nary an exaggerated, excess frill to it.
It may make you think twice about that vacation to the Missouri Ozarks, however.