The contrast between our protagonist’s lifelessness and the vitality of the natural world establishes Land as the familiar story of a white woman braving the elements to restore her spirit.
The wilderness survival thriller has long been a male-dominated subgenre, though in recent years, more female-fronted films have emerged, including Reese Witherspoon’s “Wild” and the Shailene Woodley-starring “Adrift.” In her
The source of Edee’s anguish finally comes into full focus, but, like so much of "Land," is only meekly connected, forming a not so subtle caveat separated from the film’s core.
Robin Wright makes a solid if deceptively simple directorial debut in Land
Michael O Sullivan, The Washington Post
Feb. 9, 2021
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1of3Robin Wright in Land, her feature directorial debut.Daniel Power/Focus FeaturesShow MoreShow Less
2of3Robin Wright, left, and Demián Bichir in Land. Daniel Power/Focus FeaturesShow MoreShow Less
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The actress Robin Wright began dipping her toe into directing with several episodes of House of Cards, the Netflix series in which she played a conniving political wife for several seasons. With her starring vehicle Land, the tale of a grieving woman who seeks solace - or perhaps a form of passive suicide - by going off-grid to live in a remote Wyoming cabin, she makes her solid, if only deceptively straightforward, feature debut.