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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