Clothes Lines and Weathered Faces
Reflecting on Winter’s Bone
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5 min readSep 17, 2021
Debra Granik’s 2010 film adaptation of Daniel Woodrell’s novel Winter’s Bone continues to be a revelation to me. It’s not that with each subsequent viewing that I learn something new, or learn more deeply what I already thought or discovered. No, what happens to me arrives almost full blown into my core — almost as if some Athena was being born full-bodied…
