Train Dreams
4 Oscar Nominations
A logger leads a life of quiet grace as he experiences love and loss during an era of monumental change in early 20th-century America.
What critics thought
Train Dreams arrived to near-universal critical enthusiasm, with reviewers consistently praising Joel Edgerton's performance and director Bentley's ability to balance the hardscrabble texture of early American life against something genuinely lyrical. The film draws on Denis Johnson's spare source material without losing its mythic sweep, and critics found that intimate emotional honesty — rather than spectacle — was what gave it its weight.
“the reason it's one of the best [films] of the year is how [Bentley] threads the needle between brutal reality and wistful poetry”
Brian Tallerico·RogerEbert.com
Genres
Drama
Cast & Crew
DirectorClint Bentley
StarringJoel Edgerton, Felicity Jones, Nathaniel Arcand, Clifton Collins Jr., John Diehl
ComposerBryce Dessner
Train Dreams
4 Oscar Nominations
A logger leads a life of quiet grace as he experiences love and loss during an era of monumental change in early 20th-century America.
What critics thought
Train Dreams arrived to near-universal critical enthusiasm, with reviewers consistently praising Joel Edgerton's performance and director Bentley's ability to balance the hardscrabble texture of early American life against something genuinely lyrical. The film draws on Denis Johnson's spare source material without losing its mythic sweep, and critics found that intimate emotional honesty — rather than spectacle — was what gave it its weight.
“the reason it's one of the best [films] of the year is how [Bentley] threads the needle between brutal reality and wistful poetry”
Brian Tallerico·RogerEbert.com
Genres
Drama
Cast & Crew
DirectorClint Bentley
StarringJoel Edgerton, Felicity Jones, Nathaniel Arcand, Clifton Collins Jr., John Diehl
ComposerBryce Dessner