Wind River 2017

     This film is based on actual events.  Cory Lambert is a veteran tracker with the Fish and Wildlife Service.  He works on a remote Native American Reservation.  He tracks wolves killing sheep, mountain lions killing cattle and men killing women.  He is divorced from a Native American woman and they have a son.  They had a daughter but she was kidnapped and killed.  A crime has been committed on the reservation and FBI agent Jane Banner responds to investigate.  She’s from Florida and she doesn’t know about the cold, ice and snow of this area.

     This is a tough movie and the crime is tough too.  Jane and Cory work together on this crime and that’s probably the only way they could solve it.  All the problems about who has jurisdiction are true because the crime is on reservation land.  I didn’t know how this was going to play out and how the investigation would culminate?  4* (I really liked this movie)

107 min, Crime directed by Taylor Sheridan with Kelsey Asbille, Jeremy Renner, Julia Jones, Teo Briones, Apesanahkwat, Graham Greene, Elizabeth Olsen, Tantoo Cardinal, Eric Lange, Gil Brimingham, Althea Sam, Tokala Black Elk, Martin Sensmeier.

Note:  Imdb 7.8 out of 10, 87% critic 90% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, 4.6* out of 5* with 1154 reviews, Metacritic 73 out of 100 with 44 critics 7.7 out of 10 with 244 reviews, Roger Ebert 3*.

Special Note:  Filmed in Park City Studios and Coalville, Utah; Wind River Reservation, Fremont County and Lander, Wyoming.  Shoshone tribal leaders visited Writer-director Taylor Sheridan on the set.  They related to him that at the time of filming there were 12 unsolved murders of young women on the reservation of about 6,000 people.  There is a quagmire about arrest and prosecution rights between native and non-native peoples.  The Wind River Reservation is the 7^th largest Indian reservation in the US.  An 8-minute standing ovation was received at the end of the premiere in the Un Certain Regard competition of the Cannes film festival.  This film is the third and final installment in Taylor Sheridan’s American Frontier trilogy.  The other films are Sicario of 2015 and Hell or High Water of 2016.  Elizabeth Olsen experienced snow blindness during filming.  Snowmobiles and snow cats were used and many times the snowy landscape had to be groomed afterwards.  The estimated budget was $11 million and gross US was $33,800,859 on 12/7/17.  There is another film with the same title from 2001.