Clint Bentley’s is a peach of a picture. At once miniaturist yet epic, it’s an exquisite film that touches on every human emotion – agony, ecstasy, discovery, surprise, togetherness, loneliness – without contrivance or strain.

A film of captured moments – some that feel much more important in the rear-view mirror – it’s an elegiac character study that perfectly expresses the emotions its protagonist is unable to articulate. Until he does.

Based on a 2011 novella by Denis Johnson, is one of those rare films that tackles a so-called ordinary life and illuminates it as rich, complex and extraordinary. Joel Edgerton is Robert Grainier, a logger and railroad worker in the US at the turn of the century.

We follow him from being a soft-spoken orphan unaware of who his parents are to his de

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