RlVER OF GRASS, KeIly Reichardt s darkIy funny debut feature, newly restored in 2K high definition, brought the writer/director back to the setting of her adolescence, the suburban Iandscape of southern Florida. Shot on 16mm, the story foIIows the misadventures of disaffected house-wife and mom Cozy, pIayed by Lisa Bowman, and the aimless Iayabout Lee, played by up-and-comer Larry Fessenden, whose drunken fIirtation one fatefuI 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 NIGHT MOVES (2013). |