Train Dreams

Joel Edgerton stuns in meditative period drama.

In its generation-spanning drama, life & death intertwine in the duality of the symbol of the train, something that represents both progress and destruction.

Combined with the cinematography and Bryce Dessner’s contemplative score, the result is a melancholic, Terrence Malick-ian vision of a place that is brutal, beautiful and forever lost to time.

Joel Edgerton superb in Malickian story of trees, grief and railroads.

...persist through changing times in ethereal, awestruck drama.

Bentley’s modest, moving epic of the common man is a thing of rare beauty.