Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal’s marriage capsizes in 50s Montana in an impressive directorial debut by Dano, based on the Richard Ford novelThis handsomely made, meticulously acted period picture is an impressive directorial debut for Paul Dano – and a triumph for its production designer Akin McKenzie and cinematographer Diego Garcia, who create some soberly beautiful tableaux of postwar American life.With his partner, screenwriter and actor Zoe Kazan, Dano has adapted the novel by Richard Ford about Joe, a teenage boy who has moved to a small town in 1950s Montana with his parents, on the genteel middle-class povertyline, living from pay cheque to pay cheque, and then to lack of pay cheque.
When his restlessly angry and unemployed dad leaves the family home to take a low-paying job fighting wildfires up in the hills, it ambiguously signals the end of his marriage, and Joe is the intimate
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