'Land' Review: A Broken Soul Rebuilds in Robin Wright's Beautiful Solo Show
'Land' Review: A Broken Soul Rebuilds in Robin Wright's Beautiful Solo Show
After directing episodes of 'House of Cards,' Robin Wright is ready to fly on her own, making what feels like the mainstream equivalent of a Kelly Reichardt movie.
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Director: Robin Wright
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Robin Wright, Demián Bichir, Sarah Dawn Pledge, Kim Dickens, Warren Christie, Finlay Wojtak-Hissong, Brad Leland.
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Running time: Running time: 89 MIN.
Robin Wright spends most of “Land” alone, but that’s not how her character Edee sees it. Newly widowed and raw with sorrow for reasons left (mostly) unsaid, Edee abandons nearly everything about her old life and buys a cabin on the side of a mountain in Wyoming — barely a shack, really, with no running water or electricity, surrounded by wilderness. Isolation serves a specific purpose for Edee, one that Wright, in a directorial debut so pure and simple it speaks to enormous self-confidence, has better instincts than to reveal outright.