Winters Bone

This is a film I've seen having the genre list as noir, mystery, thriller, and drama. Personally I really see the drama but don't get the rest. In noir you have the femme fatale, and the entire movie all be it very interesting story will be very bleak. In this there are moments of happiness and no femme fatale. While there is a bit of mystery as to where the father that the main character (Ree) is searching for there is not really a mysterious side to it. Thriller I don't get at all, it's not a film that keeps you on the edge of your seat, nail biting, and you don't feel that constant need to see what is going to happen next. From the sounds of that you would almost think I didn't like the film, not so. The dialog is short, to the point, and in some ways is a character of it's own. The acting is extremely well done, nothing looks out of place, and for as sad and depressing as a lot of it is you still feel a sense of hope all through out it.
I should really give a short description of this storyline, to make it clear this is not a film to see when you are depressed.
Ree is a 17 year old girl who is taking care of her two younger siblings, and her mentally ill mother. When she finds out her drug-dealing crank-cooking father put up the house and their land as bail she needs to find him to not loose the family home for him not showing up to court. Mean while the uncle, aunt, grandfather and other various members of her family are so against her looking for her father they do become violent.
The family dynamic in this film is truly important as many members of the family fear many other members of the family yet they believe in protecting their "kin".
In short this is a very good film but not one to see when you are feeling even a little down. I give this film an A.

I do feel the need to say one last thing about this film. If you watch this on DVD check out the special features. You end up finding out a lot of the cast is actually people from about the town, and scenery wasn't things built for this film or brought in from L.A.

Official site
http://www.wintersbonemovie.com/

IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1399683/