Un gelido inverno - Winter's Bone

The atmospheric tale of a teenage girl's bleak and desperate search for her father in the clannish, impoverished Ozarks won the Grand Jury Prize and the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at Sundance.

Intense, immersive and in control, "Winter's Bone" has an art house soul inside a B picture body, and that proves to be a potent combination indeed. Directed and co-written by Debra Granik, this atmospheric tale of teenager Ree Dolly's bleak and desperate search for her father in the clannish, impoverished Ozarks meshes character concerns with narrative drive so adroitly that it won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival. For Granik, who along with Anne Rosellini adapted Daniel Woodrell's "country noir" novel, getting involved in desperate circumstances is becoming second nature. [...]

di Kenneth Turan, articolo completo (5207 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 11 giugno 2010