Leave No Trace (2018)

Leave No Trace: Directed by Debra Granik. With Thomasin McKenzie, Ben Foster, Jeffery Rifflard, Derek John Drescher. A father and his thirteen-year-old daughter are living an ideal existence in a vast urban park in Portland, Oregon when a small mistake derails their lives forever.

“The Sydney Film Festival today 16 June 18.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe reason I picked this movie – the memorable u0026#39;Winters Boneu0026#39; by Debra Granik.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eu0026#39;Leave No Traceu0026#39; continues Graniks theme of disconnected, broken people and communities worn down by war, drugs, poverty, poor health, failing services, disempowerment etcu003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eA strange, intimate world brings together mental health, the beauty of nature, youth, struggles to present normality in abnormal circumstances, strange religion, engaging animals, concrete, christmas trees u0026amp; doomed .loveu003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eJuxtaposition of nature u0026amp; urban blight is too simplistic. Dig a bit deeper. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eNot an easy movie but highly recommended.”