‘God’s Country’ Review: A Terse, Tense & Tenderly Realist Neo-Western Led By A Magnificent Thandiwe Newton [Sundance]
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theplaylist.netOpening on a slide show in an empty classroom, a storm thundering away outside, black and white frontier images flicker. They feature carriages, trains, and indigenous persons communicating with settlers; miners, hunters, and cavalry troops: a romantic portrait of Manifest Destiny.
Cut to a Black woman sitting in silence at a crematorium, soon watching her mother’s ashes go up in flames. She buries them in the snow up high on a mountainside, the compositional slant of Montana’s landscape recalling the sensitivity of a Western melodrama filmmaker like Delmer Daves.
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