Film
Wildlife (12A)
Dir. Paul Dano, US, 2018, 105 mins.
Cast. Jake Gyllenhaal, Carey Mulligan, Ed Oxenbould.
Actor Paul Dano makes an impressive directorial debut with this elegant 1960s-set melodrama. Housewife Jeanette and golf assistant Jerry want nothing more than to be a picture-book happy American family. But when Jerry loses his job he decides to go and fight the wild fires raging in the nearby mountains, leaving Jeanette and their teenage son Joe behind. Gorgeously performed and with beautiful production design and cinematography, this is a poetic coming of age tale of heartbreak, silence, and the terrifying realisation that your parents are only human.
Cast. Jake Gyllenhaal, Carey Mulligan, Ed Oxenbould.
Actor Paul Dano makes an impressive directorial debut with this elegant 1960s-set melodrama. Housewife Jeanette and golf assistant Jerry want nothing more than to be a picture-book happy American family. But when Jerry loses his job he decides to go and fight the wild fires raging in the nearby mountains, leaving Jeanette and their teenage son Joe behind. Gorgeously performed and with beautiful production design and cinematography, this is a poetic coming of age tale of heartbreak, silence, and the terrifying realisation that your parents are only human.