River of Grass

There are enough times when Reichardt’s wit and skill comes through to make it worth a look in its restored version, especially if you’re a fan of her later work...

The film is a wry, appealingly raggedy look at the impossibility of conjuring up excitement from boredom.

The director of Old Joy made her debut with terrific outlaw saga River Of Grass.

...the picture benefits substantially from Bowman and Fessenden’s low-key yet lived-in work as the disaffected central characters...

It’s a genre piece robbed of any and all pomp, and if it looks little like Reichardt’s subsequent work, it has the same devastatingly melancholic feel.