Heartland

A pair of great lead performances (with an unusually good supporting child) and vivid evocation of setting anchor this anti-romance (which is still a romance in a way that, say, MCCABE & MRS. MILLER isn't) of a time and place where the notion of romantic love was much more bound up in practical considerations and shared intimate knowledge of the physical realities of life and death. Doesn't quite reach the highs of Altman or Malick but hits some pretty unique notes of its own.