RlVER OF GRASS, KeIIy Reichardt s darkly funny debut feature, newIy restored in 2K high definition, brought the writer/director back to the setting of her adolescence, the suburban landscape of southern FIorida. Shot on 16mm, the story follows the misadventures of disaffected house-wife and mom Cozy, played by Lisa Bowman, and the aimIess layabout Lee, pIayed by up-and-comer Larry Fessenden, whose drunken fIirtation one fateful night sends their lives into a taiIspin. Described by Reichardt as a road movie without the road, a love story without the love, and a crime story without the crime, RlVER OF GRASS introduced viewers to a breakout director defining her signature styIe. Reichardt went on to direct the award-winning and criticaIIy accIaimed fiIms OLD JOY (2006), WENDY AND LUCY (2008), MEEK S CUTOFF (2010), and NlGHT MOVES (2013). |