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This review was originally published last September out of the Venice Film Festival.
We are recirculating it now timed toDreamin Wilds theatrical release.
In the process, it has also become a launching pad for major award-seasonperformances.
The movies themselves are one thing.
But the acclaim-bound performances those you might spot a mile away.
Venice has been filled with lots of big, bold, showy turns that scream, Look at me!
Cate Blanchettisthe greatest conductor of our time inTar.
Ana de ArmasisMarilyn Monroe inBlonde.
Hugh Jackmanisa grieving father inThe Son.
Timothee Chalametisa country-boy cannibal inBones and All.
Brendan Fraseris600 pounds inThe Whale.
These actors gesticulate, they scream, they cry, they die (sometimes), and they makeuscry.
For the most part, theyve earned their hosannas.
Thats where Walton Goggins comes is.
Here, Pohlad has found another true-life music-industry story about family and the slippery nature of success.
(The film is based on a2016 article by Steven Kurutz.)
The movie is … well, its not exactly great.
He gets to do the capital-Aacting in this one.
But its Goggins who draws you in with his quiet performance as Joe, the other brother.
He lives on the family farm and has slowly built a beautiful house with his own hands.
Were told that he loved someone once, briefly, but that she died.
Hes not a melancholy brooder however.
He just seems like an average person living his life.
He has always struck me as having a kind face, a very human face.
He seems content, at times, to stand back and observe.
Joe is happy to be along for the ride.
Thats because, as we eventually realize, hes happy for his brother and his family.
Hes passive but not in the weak way that movies often present passivity.
Its because thats the way so many of us are in the real world.
