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First Winter
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- Summary: A group of young urban idealists spends their first winter living a new age dream in a remote farmhouse, but a major power outage forces them back to using their traditional resources.
- Director: Benjamin Dickinson
- Genre(s): Drama
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91Dickinson's hauntingly naturalistic look at disgruntled young adults trapped in the country following an urban disaster plays like "Martha Marcy May Marlene" transported to a post-apocalyptic survival narrative -- with lots of yoga and sex.
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90The glue holding the film together is Adam Newport-Berra's elegant hand-held cinematography, which captures changing shades of winter and the frightened faces in natural light with an astonishing intensity.
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Nov 13, 201230Even when things start to go awry for our group (thanks to jealousy, illness, a dwindling food stock) Dickinson's anti-dramatic methodology proves ill-suited to the task of generating narrative interest.
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