Meek's Cutoff
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Synopsis
Settlers traveling through the Oregon desert in 1845 find themselves stranded in harsh conditions.
Cast
- Michelle Williams
- Bruce Greenwood
- Will Patton
- Zoe Kazan
- Paul Dano
- Shirley Henderson
- Neal Huff
- Tommy Nelson
- Rod Rondeaux
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- Mar 21, 2020
a tranquil nightmare. maybe men have been making westerns wrong this whole time 🤨
LucyJan 17, 2016cotton dresses, dirty hands, unintelligible men, tiny drawings on a vast indifferent canvas, "this was written long before we got here", distant/following/spying camera, aspect ratio like tunnel vision/horse blinders/looking down the barrel of a gun (or looking into the…
sydneyHardly anything happens in this movie. Watching it is kind of like playing Oregon Trail on the slowest setting without all the excitement of trying to kill off the people traveling with you. I LOVED IT.
Lily Schmidt - Feb 25, 2020
I worship Reichardt's patience as a storyteller. Restraint as a weapon. Upon a second watch, this is one of the key movies of the century.
Sean FennesseyApr 2, 2020For all practical purposes, 'Meek’s Cutoff' is a Western. But for many viewers, here lies the problem, for at its heart 'Meek’s Cutoff' doesn’t function like a genre film. It certainly revises and challenges traditional elements of the Western genre — accentuating the…
Brett WrightMeek's Cutoff is a montage of seductive landscape paintings masquerading as a movie. Perhaps it knows that if it does nothing it can't be accused of doing anything wrong. Critics often mistake inertia for high-art. The performances, photography and score are excellent. It's…
Luke Kane - Sep 4, 2011
85/100 [originally written on my blog] Just skimming the Metacritic blurbs threatens to render you comatose: "104 minutes of punishment"; "visually and emotionally severe"; "courts tedium"; "ponderously slow in pace"; "threaten[s] occasionally to stultify"; "there are…
Mike D'AngeloMay 12, 2021On his WTF podcast, Marc Maron mentioned to Boyhood director Richard Linklater that a scene where a character looks down at his phone while driving had made him nervous, because he was convinced it was the precursor to an auto accident or some other terrible malady. His…
Remobo85 The Western as a survivalist frontier, with a vastness that develops into a stage-like incomprehensibility. What lies beyond the limits of this ensemble is unknowable. It's fruitless to try. Corey's excellent pick of Meek's Cutoff finally gives us the chance to…
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- kendra jo is "meh" onMeek's Cutoff
didn’t particularly enjoy watching this one because it is very much slow cinema & relatively boring. but it was very interesting to discuss afterwards & the cinematography was absolutely gorgeous. can definitely appreciate what the director was doing here
Jimmy Cricket likedMeek's CutoffVery different western giving a very real portrait of survival in the frontier; painfully slow paced, little-to-no dialouge, static yet meticulously framed shots and heavily rooted in the female perspective.
Morrison likedMeek's CutoffI’m would have gone a little crazy tbh
- big dawg is "meh" onMeek's Cutoff
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Metacritic
Apr 4, 2011
Epic in scope, and featuring a powerful lead performance by Williams, Reichardt does justice to the myth of the wagon train settlers and makes a Western every bit as beautiful and poetic as Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven, and thankfully a bit more energetic.
Steve Ramos
Boxoffice Magazine
Apr 4, 2011
In this quiet, beautiful and terrifying fable about a group of lost pioneers, Reichardt combines epic ambition with a focus on intimate, personal detail.
Andrew O'Hehir
Salon
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Meek's Cutoff (2011) family-friendly?
The movie has been rated as PG (Parental Guidance Suggested). It's generally considered a family-friendly movie.
How long is Meek's Cutoff (2011)?
The movie is 1hr 44min long.
What's Meek's Cutoff (2011) about?
Settlers traveling through the Oregon desert in 1845 find themselves stranded in harsh conditions.
Who's the cast of Meek's Cutoff (2011)?
- Michelle Williams as Emily Tetherow
- Bruce Greenwood as Stephen Meek
- Will Patton as Solomon Tetherow
- Zoe Kazan as Millie Gately
- Paul Dano as Thomas Gately
- Shirley Henderson as Glory White
- Neal Huff as William White
- Tommy Nelson as Jimmy White
- Rod Rondeaux as The Cayuse
Who's the director behind Meek's Cutoff (2011)?
Kelly Reichardt directed Meek's Cutoff (2011).
Who produced Meek's Cutoff (2011)?
Neil Kopp, Anish Savjani and Elizabeth Cuthrell produced Meek's Cutoff (2011).
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