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I'm not entirely sure why this was so poorly received. I understand the bit of a cliche in the plot, finding yourself after a tragedy and rebuilding the world you live in to suit the lifestyle you need (See: Nomadland).

The reasons this movie worked are as follows.

The music was paired phenomenally with the visuals. The soundtrack was mostly beautifully orchestrated and delicate strings coupled with some ambient tracks that really worked with the mood of the introspective and developmental scenes.

The shots in this film are absolutely incredibly. Alberta was an amazing landscape to capture and being reminded of the beautiful, incredible and yet cruel land (hehe) that we often take for granted and certainly underestimate.

The plot fits neatly inside of 1 hr and 30 min, it does not get boring, and it completely encompasses the process of emotional healing through incredible visual story telling.

This movie is worth watching, and I recommend it to someone who is patient and wants something tender and mindfully directed to enjoy.

Some of the reviews of this movie complain of the slow pace and it is in fact slow. But as we get older we are not in such a rush to get to the end, don't need a breakneck pace to satisfy. We can often see ourselves in this sort of film and have some experience of loss. I very much enjoyed this.

This is a minimalistic film, but it offers a lot. First, the scenery and cinematography are both stunning. Second, details of the harsh life are portrayed very well. Then, the journey of healing is beautifully portrayed. The characters are sympathetic, and they make you care about them. I think this is a very good film.

For a drama like this there was some nice mystery and tension too. The landscape and cinematography was amazing. The simple yet effective cast was convincing. I got a bit teary eyed.

LAND is a touching study of a woman steeped in grief, determined to leave life behind in the midst of a devastating happening. Robin Wright effectively directs from an angle of isolation, both of place and of mind. It's a solid directorial debut and a raw, emotional performance. A lot of moments and scenarios feel familiar, and while that hinders the overall experience, LAND is so beautifully shot with such deeply heartfelt performances that it earns a lot of respect by the end. The film's biggest achievement is the its second half, and the subtle way it works through grief and pain in restrained, tender moments.

Amazingly poignant depiction of the desolation of loss, the depths of its despair, the lengths we will go to hold the world at arms length, and despite a world of beauty the human connections necessary for tethering us to learning the will to survive.

I like Robin Wright's acting tremendously but after this movie am not enthused about her directing.

If you have ever lived in a remote area you will see the many inconsistencies in the story and will be frustrated by the character's stupidity and arrogance, if you haven't they won't bother you. I could have got past all the holes if the movie had been otherwise engaging, but I found it flat.

It is obvious what this film wants to be: a moving ode to recovery from grief, a survival tale set in an overwhelming world that most of us are just too under-prepared to deal with. But apart from a bit of decent acting it feels hollow. The pacing is monotonous - there just aren't any builds, lulls, no highs, no lows. The 'danger' scenes feel much the same as the 'touching' and the 'lonely' scenes; the wind, rain and snow feel much the same as the sunshine. There is no evocation of feeling, no momentum, no passing of time (the seasons are so confusing it is ridiculous).

There's nothing to grab you and pull you in. The beautiful shots of the Rockies don't evoke a sense of sweeping grandeur, they are flashed on screen for a moment and come off feeling like so much desktop wallpaper. It's all just surface stuff: here's a pretty vista, here are some deer, a bear (who is not hibernating in winter.) There is no struggle, things just happen. A dog was introduced and it wasn't even used it as a device to work the audience's emotions. It's just there for set dressing like a movie star's toy dog. (And to project the ending I suppose, which it gives away.)

But for one night scene the sounds of the mountains were almost completely absent: the birds, owls at night, foxes screeching, raccoons foraging, mice, insects buzzing, etc. No mosquitoes or black flies? The Rocky Mountains are a riot of sound and life. Sound that would have filled out those empty scenes, given us a sense of place, added to the hardship. I didn't feel the wind or rain or dirt under her nails, or hear the shots of the gun ring out through the wood in a death knell for the first deer she killed. It was too clean. It should have been a life changing moment, loud and harsh.

Perhaps RW left out the visceral elements in order to show the character did not feel anything, but if so the audience still needs to experience the wilderness - that's part of the contract when you make a survival film. We get to be in that place. Not evoking the senses is an amateur mistake in any film but especially a nature one. Nature should be an omnipresent force, a character - the antagonist - in a movie like this, but in "Land" she felt oddly passive and removed.

The only part of this film that really worked was the end - the actor who played the savior was excellent and moving.

I hope if Robin Wright directs another film she doesn't act in it - it is a large order to both star in and direct a film and I think this one suffers from both lack of focus and lack of experience. Also sub-par editing.

This is a beautiful film about people, about loss and about how people try to cope with that loss. Robin Wright's protagonist chooses to go away, escaping everything and everybody.

Land is a great reminder that the budget of a good movie doesn't have to be huge; you can tell an interesting story without expensive sets and an enormous cast and crew.

I wouldn't have thought that it would be a good idea to star in your own directorial debut, but Robin Wright comes out perfectly fine, both as an actor and as a director.

Demián Bichir does a beautifully understated performance in the supporting role of Miguel, and while the sets are not expensive, they often present breathtaking mountain vistas.

Land is definitely worth watching.

This feels like a story that was written by city slickers about their idea of what it would be like to live off the grid but too many things are either unrealistic or make the main character seem completely crazy, which she IS struggling emotionally, but those decisions didn't seem like they came from a place of bad mental health, but seemed like this was her trying to save her soul. Cinematography is good and the rugged setting is cool, but it's kind of a slow story that takes awhile to get going. Once it does, there are some nice moments.

Maybe it's a trend, maybe it's a passing phase, but simplistic stories about becoming one with the wild have been hard to ignore of late. From Chloe Zhao's 'Nomadland' to Robin Wright's 'Land,' following the stories of women who have tried to disappear into nature has made for intriguing subject matter.

In Wright's directorial debut we follow the journey of Edee, a middle-aged woman who escapes civilization as she copes with guilt that stems from a tragic personal loss. The film's low budget-ness helps give it an authentic feel, as the focus is on the Wyoming wilderness and the struggle Edee has not only with the elements, but with her inner demons. But it's not all doom and gloom - we get to witness a rebirth of sorts with her budding friendship with a local man (Demián Bichir), as well as a very important learning by film's end.

If 'Land' is an example of what Wright is capable of on both sides of the camera, we should expect much more to come.

I enjoyed this movie, but then I'm a 60-something woman who quite fancies being a lone survivor after an apocalypse. I'm not sure who else this film would appeal to. Sure, the scenery is breathtaking and almost worth watching the movie for that alone, but the actual story is oddly dark and depressing. I don't think it's supposed to be--I think we're supposed to see someone coming back to life with the help of all this awe-inspiring nature. Maybe it's just a reflection of the fact that this film is quite realistic that the fate of the characters strikes home, and you don't get a typical Hollywood-style happy ever after vibe. So, a bit dark. A bit depressing, but nice snowy mountains. So other than tough old birds of a certain age who'd like to escape modern life, as I said in the title, who is the audience for this?

If you love scenery, give it a go.

Okay so maybe it was a bit of a stretch and a few places but overall I think it was really well done and definitely worth a watch. So many people get on here and over analyze every movie they watch. I think it's a fantastic debut by Ms Wright and I hope to see more movies from her..... Well done 👍🏻✅

The movie has two protagonists. One is nature and the other is human nature. The meeting of the two is the rare moment when rational egoism stops the delusion, and this is the only coin for the person who chooses to be alone.

First of all, I want to say how good it was to see a newly released movie on the big screen. I missed "going" to the movies. This may very well prejudice this review. This was a beautiful movie, epic in landscape, quiet in thought, skillful in silent performance. Filmed in the Canadian Rockies (or as Robin Wright said, "the Alberta mountains"), the location is equally a character. It has garnered many film festival accolades and I've heard it described as Wright's greatest work. It definitely was her work. She produced, performed and directed it. It is a beautiful piece of film making. I give this film an 8 (beautiful) out of 10. {Drama}

A woman in despair after a tragedy retreats to a cabin in the mountains to live alone.

Robin Wright directs her own performance, spending much time onscreen alone and silent as a woman struggling to survive both in relation to the wilderness and her own pain. Her performance always rings true emotionally, and the beats of her transformation are lucid. The landscape is beautifully filmed, the landscapes are vast, the winter is bitterly cold and the wilderness is living and breathing; though her interaction with it, her struggle to chop wood and hunt deer, the physical realities of her life, a very superficially depicted. The beauty and tangibility of the world is so real that I can't help but want to believe in her relationship with it. But the ultimate impact, of a woman struggling with significant emotional turmoil and despair, is real and her transformations and relationships are moving.

You wouldn't call Robin Wright's feature directional debut (after helming a number of House of Cards episodes in its later seasons) a bad film in the typical sense of the label, but this overly familiar and utterly unsurprising tale of a lost soul learning too love life once again thanks too kindly strangers and the joys of the great outdoors does nothing to distinguish itself from a raft of other dramatic offerings in the same ilk that all managed to carve out more of a unique identity for themselves.

Oddly enough bringing to mind Wright's ex-partner Sean Penn's Into the Wild, Land follows Wright's grieving widow Edee whose had enough of society and decides her best way forward is to remove herself from the human realm and get back to nature in the secluded Wyoming forest, only too quickly discover living off the land isn't the dream conjured up in text books while being close too other humans may in fact be exactly what she needs to heal from the grief of her past.

The film looks beautiful thanks to its picturesque landscapes and as always Wright is a solid performer, even if Edee isn't exactly a unique character much like the narrative, but there's just not a lot that holds it all together here and whilst the film is brief at sub-90 minutes, there's a feeling of the same ground being covered throughout the film as Edee struggles with one thing after the other (bears, cold, no food) giving the film a repetitive nature that is only exaggerated when Demian Bichir's kindly Miguel arrives on the scene to reignite Edee's love for her fellow man and life in general.

Sometimes comfort food is exactly what you need and that's clearly what Wright and her team were thinking when they designed Land to be consumed by eager cinemagoers and while you wish the best for Edee and eventually her friendship/potential relationship with Miguel, it doesn't make the film any more memorable or engaging with viewers likely to be hard pressed to remember or recall anything much of note in a film that's pleasant enough to put up with, without every threatening to be something that engages the heart, mind or spirit in the way in which it no doubt wanted too.

Final Say -

Land offers nothing more than familiar set-ups and experiences for viewers who would've undoubtedly seen many a lost soul seeks to find inner peace in the world movies beforehand, making Robin Wright's passion project an unnecessary and unmemorable drama.

2 outdoor baths out of 5.

This film was a gorgeous piece that captures both the complex internal and external landscape with grace. Robin Wright does a phenomenal job acting especially given that the dialogue is sparse.

"Land" is a Drama movie in which we watch a woman going to a cabin in Wyoming in order to live a different life than the one she was living in a city. She starts her new life there but she faces many difficulties since she is not used to this kind of life.

I found this movie very interesting despite its simple and cliché plot because the direction which was made by Robin Wright was simply beautiful. She introduced her main characters, their stories very well and she also used the beautiful landscape of Alberta which I found simply amazing and sometimes even breathtaking, equally good. The interpretations of both Robin Wright who played as Edee and Demián Bichir who played as Miguel were very good. In conclusion, I have to say that "Land" is a beautiful, emotional movie and I recommend everyone to watch it because I am sure that after watching it you will appreciate many things that you already have in your life and take them for granted.