East of Wall is a silently fierce story of loss, rebellion and family review Family – Sundance

Some films do not tell only a simple story, they let you sink into a world. East of the wall It is one of those films. Tabatha follows, a hard and tattooed horse coach who, after losing her husband, transforms his ran rack into a paradise for a group of teenagers in difficulty.

The setting for the story is compelling, but what makes this film stand out is the way you breathe. He moves slowly, carefully, but with an underground current of rough energy, like the still restless young souls he portrays. There is something wonderfully contradictory, patient but indicated, silent but fiercely alive.

I have always been attracted to stories that seem not filtered, the type that does not polish the rough edges. This film has that rare authenticity.

Director Kate BeecroftWhich is making its debut in operation, it builds something that is found at the turn of reality and fiction so perfectly that it is easy to forget where one ends and the other begins.

This is partly due to the fact that Beecroft has based the film in a real place and real people, including its command, Tabatha Zimiga, whose presence on the screen is completely magnetic.

You can feel the weight of his experiences in every scene. The film does not hold the hand or the strength of sentimentalism: it only makes you sit with these characters, their struggles and the space in which they live.

It is a slow, but never boring burning. While the film is methodical in its narrative, there is a wild punk spirit. These teenagers can feel lost, but they are rebellious, they seek, pushing back against the world as much as they are trying to find their place in it.

The American West that occupy is not what we are used to seeing on the screen. It is broken, dusty and frayed to the edges, but still full of possibilities. Cinematography captures everything in a breathtaking way, framing the Badlands not only as a background but as a character of his own, one who does not forgive as beautiful.

The mixture of the film of characters and professional actors of real life such as Scoot McNairy AND Jennifer Ehle He gives him a feeling put on the ground and lived.

East of the wall It is, in the center, a film about resilience, in finding a way to follow even when everything seems to fall apart.