Have you ever felt hopelessly stuck, no matter what you do, you always end up in the same shitty place?That's the problem the heroine faces. desert road. After crashing her car in a remote desert, no matter what Claire Devoir (Kristin Froseth) does, she ends up right back where she started. The pieces don't fit together. Time is hectic. At times, the few people she meets seem to know about her and even fear her.
A unique thriller that plays with time beyond typical time frames. groundhog day loop structure, desert road This is an indie work that you should definitely look for.
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desert road We offer an unusual horror movie heroine.
Forget about the shy babysitter or the brazen nagging of slasher movies. Forget about meta heroines. Being familiar with genre movies, I can pretty much predict what's going to happen next, whether it's zombies or vampires. back to the future-Wind antics.what makes it so desert roadWhat's remarkable about the heroine of “The World's Best'' is that she doesn't fit into tired stereotypes. She is neither an ignorant victim nor a frightened maiden.
Claire doesn't have any mysterious backstory that affects the plot. She's not particularly good at anything. Not really, at least if you ask her. She dreams of becoming a photographer, but blushes when someone calls her that. The photographer is paid for her work, but she takes pictures that no one can see.
Perhaps she is her own worst critic, her own worst enemy, and a self-destructor. But when the time comes, she stands on her own. When a tire breaks, she competently replaces it. At a nearby gas station, she quickly detects a scam from a sketchy clerk (Max Mattern). But even though she's smart and capable, she doesn't know what to do when she's stuck on the eponymous desert road. She walks from point A to point B to point C, over and over again, and she ends up at A again. How is that possible? What does it mean? is she dead? Is she doomed? Is there any way?
desert road It's a lean, heart-wrenching thriller.
There's a sophisticated slipperiness to the storytelling here. Writer and director Shannon Triplett rejects the rules and clichés of many of his previous sci-fi stories. By the time the pieces start to add up, it's hard to do anything but drop your jaw and marvel.
Part of the horror here is that the scenario begins in a very mundane way. It's easy to imagine yourself in a similar position, but it's much harder to imagine a solution. Thankfully, Claire is our gutsy guide, spitting out plenty of her frustrated monologues to herself and dialogue for others as we map this difficult terrain. When you can follow along with her. Fros carries this journey with her captivating charisma, full of courage and righteous anger. She's on fire and it's thrilling to watch her burn and scorch others.
desert road We have great supporting players.
The cast is littered with familiar faces, but there are few big stars, giving the story a captivating verisimilitude, even with some unexplained plot twists. Playing the aforementioned convenience store clerk, Mattern exudes a fidgety energy that's both approachable and suspicious. Maybe he can't be trusted. Maybe he's socially awkward. And in that ambiguity, it becomes hard to tell if he's paranoid or obsessed with something when Claire is blaming him.
Elsewhere, a guard here (DB Woodside in a steely mode) and a mysterious nomad there (Frances Fisher, giving an old woman mystique) anticipate the desert around her. Bring it to life in a unique way. But the most touching moment is when he meets an old man, played by Beau Bridges, driving alone at night. His name is teased in the credits, but I was too engrossed in the movie unfolding in front of me to notice – the heroine (and us) Until I heard a familiar soft dragging sound that offered wisdom. The nature of this character would be a spoiler, so instead of revealing it, I'll just say that Bridges will be a calming voice in the eye of the storm. After building up the tension in this great story, Bridges becomes an oasis for the soul. desert road.
It's because of movies like this that we go to film festivals. Certainly, SXSW 2024 will play some flashier headliners. But there's a unique joy in the sense of discovery that comes with watching an imaginative, original, and relentlessly riveting film. desert road. The film is resolute in its storytelling. It's more evocative than descriptive. Clever casting and a rejection of time-travel tropes result in a film with a dizzying spontaneity, making it impossible to predict what will happen next. That's a rare enough treasure in today's movies, but even more so in the post of time travel stories. groundhog dayall other things are necessarily compared.
Simply put, desert road It follows its own path and takes the audience on a twisting, tense and extremely exciting journey.
desert road Reviewed from the film's world premiere at SXSW 2024.
