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Train Dreams

Drama English


A logger leads a life of quiet grace as he experiences love and loss during an era of monumental change in early 20th-century America.

Cast:Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones, Nathaniel Arcand, Clifton Collins Jr., John Diehl, Paul Schneider
Director:Clint Bentley
Editor:Parker Laramie
Camera:Adolpho Veloso

Guild Reviews

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Confronts Ecological Conservation, 20th-Century Capitalism Through a Faceless American Figure

FCG Member Reviewer Tatsam Mukherjee
Tatsam Mukherjee | The Wire
Mon, December 1 2025

Adapted from a 2011 novella written by Denis Johnson, Bentley’s film chronicles the tenderness and awe in Robert’s seemingly ‘ordinary’ life, most of which isn’t immediately apparent to him.

It takes a special kind of film to be aware of its surroundings. It is one thing to fetishise nature and invite comparison to the sweeping scale of a Terrence Mallick film but Clint Bentley’s Train Dreams does something interesting with the vessel of a meandering Mallick film. It cuts and splices the essential bits of a man’s journey fuelled by cosmic wonder: the meaning of it all. And it does that using a specific means: a voiceover (by Will Patton).

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