2015 · adventure · drama · thriller
Wildlike
Directed by Frank Hall Green1h 44m2015
Fourteen-year-old Mackenzie is sent to live with her uncle in Juneau when her mother can’t care for her anymore. The living situation quickly takes a turn for the worse, and she runs away to rejoin her mother in Seattle. While on her dangerous journey of sleeping in cars and breaking into hotel rooms, she’s drawn to Rene, a lonesome backpacker looking for tranquility in the wilderness.
Our read: Wildlike (2015) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded adventure · drama · thriller entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured adventure / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- measured
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