River of Grass

Name: River of Grass
Genre: Drama
Released: August 4, 1995
Duration: 76 min
Rating: 71

1995

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Oscilloscope Pictures | Release Date: August 4, 1995 | Not Rated

Summary: Kelly Reichardt’s darkly funny debut feature, brought the writer/director back to the setting of her adolescence, the suburban landscape of southern Florida, where she grew up with her detective father and narcotics agent mother. Shot on 16mm, the story follows the misadventures of disaffected house-wife "Cozy", played by Lisa Bowman, andKelly Reichardt’s darkly funny debut feature, brought the writer/director back to the setting of her adolescence, the suburban landscape of southern Florida, where she grew up with her detective father and narcotics agent mother. Shot on 16mm, the story follows the misadventures of disaffected house-wife "Cozy", played by Lisa Bowman, and the aimless layabout "Lee", played by up and comer Larry Fessenden, who also acted as a producer and the film's editor. Described by Reichardt as "a road movie without the road, a love story without the love, and a crime story without the crime," River of Grass introduces viewers to a director already in command of her craft and defining her signature style. [Oscilloscope Laboratories]… Expand

Director: Kelly Reichardt

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 76 min

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Mike D'Angelo

If one were to watch this jagged, restless movie with no knowledge of who made it, guessing that it sprung from the same mind that created "Old Joy" or "Meek’s Cutoff" would be impossible. Intuiting that this gifted novice filmmaker would go on to bigger and better things, however, would be child’s play. Read full review

Melissa Anderson

Reichardt pays clear homage to Breathless and Badlands, but her movie, the title of which is a local name for the Everglades, operates in its own ecosystem, teeming with the droll, shrewd observations about downwardly mobile life explored more solemnly in Reichardt's next two films, Old Joy and Wendy and Lucy. Read full review

Kevin Thomas

At every turn, Reichardt confounds predictability, confronting us with the awful banality of many people's everyday lives rather than providing her characters with an escape from it. Yet Reichardt is so agile, ingenious and funny that she can make a lively, entertaining movie about how life isn't like the movies. Read full review

The Film Stage Michael Snydel

River of Grass isn’t able to reach the peaks of Reichardt’s later monumental work, but it’s educational in mapping out her concerns as a filmmaker and a stirring reminder of her abilities as a visual stylist. Read full review

Dave Kehr

Highly original and filmed with perfect assurance, River of Grass is one of the finest independent films of recent years. Read full review

Michael Wilmington

More than "Natural Born Killers," it's a real deconstruction of the whole love-on-the-run crime genre: drab, grim but effective. Read full review

Todd McCarthy

River of Grass works much better as a jokey , theoretical piece of genre revisionism than as a real movie. Read full review

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