TRAIN DREAMS

Director: Clint Bentley
Starring: Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones, William H. Macy, Kerry Condon, Alfred Hsing, Paul Schneider

Sometimes movies come along that you enter with zero expectations, and then throughout it, you’re quietly blown over by its beauty and power. The new Netflix film, Train Dreams, is that very movie. There’s something soothing about Will Patton’s narration of this story. Rarely narration works, and yet, here it settles you in quickly as he talks about those strange trails and hidden paths in life that have disappeared over time. It’s the early 1900s in Idaho with Joel Edgerton’s character, Robert Grainier, living a simple life as a lumberjack. He has very little to his name, and his life changes for the better when he meets Gladys (Jones) at church. They quickly marry and have a young baby daughter. He continues to travel for work leaving his family behind not knowing if and when he’ll see them again. It’s an incredibly dangerous profession, as we later see in the film. William H. Macy plays Arn Peeples, the oldest man on Robert’s crew who is an expert in explosives and never stops talking. Robert and Gladys want and dream for more in life, but he’s also plagued with reoccurring visions of a dark and deadly future. Now streaming on Netflix

Here’s my review