Leave No Trace
Wonderful Debra Granik (Winter's Bone) film about a father and daughter living wild in a National Park in Oregan, who are discovered and made by the authorities to live in a proper house. He can't handle it, probably because he's a veteran with PTSD, which is triggered by things like helicopters and other trappings of 'civilization'. She has a strong bond with her dad, but she's growing up and yearning for the company of others.
Hardly any of this is explained and much of the exposition in the film is through what happens, rather than what we're told. This is very effective, with many non-verbal exchanges between father and daughter saying more than any dialogue could ever do. A particularly meaningful and moving scene is just of the daughter showing her dad a beehive. So much is said in this brief scene with very few words used. It's both uplifting and devastating.
Ben Foster and Thomasin Mackenzie deserve to he heaped with awards for their work on this - the threadbare script doesn't give them much to work with, but to Granik's credit, they don't need much to deliver such convincing and touching performances.
