Meek’s Cutoff

This screening took place on Sunday, October 30, 2011 at 8:59 pmYukon Arts Centre

Shot with stark, spare elegance, director Kelly Reichardt (Wendy and Lucy and Old Joy) brings us a slow-burn tone poem- following a group of lost pioneers in the barren desert of 1845 Oregon- that is enigmatic frontier cinema at its best. The stellar cast includes Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine and Brokeback Mountain) as a bonneted, tough-as-nails pilgrim, Rod Rondeaux as the silently impassive native man encountered and then captured by the group, and Bruce Greenwood as scruffy, McCabe-like blowhard Stephen Meek, whose disastrous trail misguiding is either plainly incompetent or purely malicious.