A near-penniless drifter's journey to Alaska in search of work is interrupted when she loses her dog while attempting to shoplift food for it.
Acting
Michelle Williams does more with silence than most do with monologues.
Direction
Reichardt's radical empathy for the overlooked.
Sound
Train sounds as existential dread — simple, perfect.
Director
Kelly Reichardt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film was shot for under $300,000 in 18 days. Michelle Williams' salary was essentially deferred — she did it for the art and dog love.
Released during the 2008 financial crisis, it became accidentally prophetic — suddenly America's 'invisible' poor were everyone's neighbor. Reichardt had been making films about them for years.
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