“Machoian is a master of the dynamic long take, which he frequently employs in full service of a bare-bones narrative taking place over a mere two days. Beginning with an exhilarating (and for a minute or so, bewildering) sequence in which David escapes through the front window of a house and flees down the middle of a road in a sparsely inhabited neighborhood, the camera patiently pacing behind him until he reaches his destination, Machoian embraces a clean economy of style that seldom, if ever, feels gratuitous. Fluctuating from claustrophobic to open-sky settings (the film was shot in wintry rural Utah), it appears he’s thought everything out, but without suffocating the movie. The muted cinematography of Oscar Ignacio Jimenez (but how that red Ford pickup truck pops onscreen!) and a chilling sound design that periodically incorporates what sound like muffled gunshots (or are they clicks of a revolver’s rotating barrel?) make solid contributions to Machoian’s overall vision here.”

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