Train Dreams (2025)

	Directed by: Clint Bentley	COUNTRY USA GENRE Drama NORWEGIAN TITLE Train Dreams RUNNING TIME 102 minutes
	Produced by: Marissa McMahon Teddy Schwarzman Will Janowitz Ashley Schlaifer Michael Heimler
	Written by: Clint Bentley Greg Kwedar

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Robert Grainier	Joel Edgerton	½
Gladys Olding Grainier	Felicity Jones
Claire Thompson	Kerry Condon	½
Arn Peeples	William H. Macy	½
The narrator	Will Patton	-
Ignatius Jack	Nathaniel Arcand	-
Billy	John Diehl	-

Review

A mood piece about fellers and sawyers in early 1900s Idaho. Director Clint Bentley doesn't narrate with his images, instead preferring to let Will Patton's voiceover do that job for him, which gives the film a phlegmatic quality. Bentley populates his picture with slow-moving scenes that are meant to recreate a bygone era filled with characters of the soil. He adds clichéd bouts of mysticism and anachronistic environmental conversations for good measure. It's all enormously dull, and nowhere near as poetic as Bentley seems to think. Joel Edgerton gives a dogged, grounded lead performance that, along with some beautiful nature photography, is the film's best asset.