In the death of her husband a young woman who runs a horse ranch where she takes care of troubled teens tries to soldier on.
A hit at Sundance and at Tribeca EAST OF WALL is beautiful
film with some great performances from a cast of largely nonfactors playing
themselves. It’s a moving slice of life.
My question with the film is why this film is essentially
docu-fiction when the best things in the film are the documentary sequences.
This isn’t to say that the film is bad, it isn’t. This more to say that their efforts to tack a
narrative on to the proceedings makes this feel clunky. This being a narrative, even one based on real
life, makes you assume that there is a narrative thread of sorts. Instead, this
is more like an observational documentary like the work of Frederick Wiseman. In
reading on people’s reaction to the film I completely understand why some
people who saw it were confused by the film not having a conventional story.
On the other hand, if you can take the film on its own terms,
it is a moving film with some genuinely great people at its center.
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