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Woman finds salvation from wilderness in Robin Wright's simple but resonant 'Land'

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

Quietly heart-wrenching and keenly observed. TWITTER 2/12/2021 Robin Wright stars in and directs a drama centered on the self-imposed isolation of a woman in the throes of devastating loss. Over the past year, many of us have become intimately acquainted with a "remote" approach to life and work. For the protagonist of Land, a woman stricken by unfathomable loss, remoteness is not a matter of cyber readjustments but an existential imperative. She turns away from what's left of her life in the city — specifically, from people and their need for her to get "better" — and exiles herself to ...

Ten years ago, actresses struggled to find substantial leading parts. Today, they're increasingly creating their own. "Land" doesn't just give Robin Wright an enormous canvas on which to prove herself behind the camera, it also offers us another chance to admire her work in front of it. In her feature directorial debut, Wright plays Edee Holzer, a woman clearly shattered from some overwhelmingly enormous tragedy. As the film begins, she is...

"Land" gives Robin Wright a canvas to prove herself behind the camera and also offers us another chance to admire her work in front of it.