Train Dreams follows 80 years in one man’s life as he is haunted by his past mistakes, fearful there might be some kind of karma waiting for him right around the corner. When tragedy strikes, he’s left to pick up the pieces left behind and try to make sense of everything. The cinematography (by Adolpho Veloso), score (Bryce Dessner), screenplay (by Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar), and costumes (by Malgosia Turzanska) are some of the best of the year. The film is glacially paced (not necessarily a bad thing) and introspective.
Train Dreams is gorgeous in its quiet simplicity, and its multiple musings on the beauty and meaning of everything are powerful. It’s ultimately about Earth, life, death, beauty, grief, time, and how everything changes but so much remains the same. This is a film that could touch your soul, if you let it.
4.5 STARS
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