Essential Cinema: Kelly Reichardt: The First Five

RIVER OF GRASS

Directed by Kelly Reichardt

USA, 1994, 1h 16min, DCP

Essential Cinema  Kelly Reichardt: The First Five

There are no current or future screenings planned for this film.

“Incisive and funny…simultaneously subversive and compassionate.”
Boston Globe

“A lively, entertaining movie about how life isn’t like the movies.”
Los Angeles Times

“One of the year’s smartest indies. Not for squares.”
The Village Voice

Described by Reichardt as “a road movie without the road, a love story without the love, and a crime story without the crime,” this self-assured, shot-on-16mm debut shows a bored Florida housewife embrace cheap thrills and a life on the run with a seductive drifter, Lee (Larry Fessenden, here doing triple duty as the film’s producer and editor).

Presented in conjunction with Kelly Reichardt’s latest film, SHOWING UP, which opens April 14.

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