Screening times:
Saturday, November 8, 8:30 PM

Kelly Reichardt | USA | 1994 | 76m

This November we are screening a mini-retrospective of films by American auteur Kelly Reichardt! We are also screening Wendy & Lucy on November 22, and Meek's Cutoff on November 28.

Kelly Reichardt’s darkly funny debut feature brought the writer/director back to the setting of her adolescence, the suburban landscape of southern Florida, where she grew up with her detective father and narcotics agent mother.

Shot on 16mm, the story follows the misadventures of disaffected house-wife "Cozy", played by Lisa Bowman, and the aimless layabout "Lee", played by up and comer Larry Fessenden, who also acted as a producer and the film's editor.

Described by Reichardt as "a road movie without the road, a love story without the love, and a crime story without the crime," River of Grass introduces viewers to a director already in command of her craft and defining her signature style.

"Reichardt subverts expectations at every turn, while simultaneously painting a vivid portrait of southern Florida (the title refers to the Everglades, and the film goes back and forth between Broward and Dade County) in all its sun-drenched seediness." - Mike d'Angelo, AV Club

Nominated: Best Dramatic Feature (Grand Jury Prize) - Sundance Film Festival, 1994

Tickets $12 ($11.40 cash at the door if available)