Train Dreams, the acclaimed drama starring Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones, has now landed on Netflix. Regarded as “one of the best pictures of the year” by Vulture, this period piece is one you won’t want to miss.
The film, which is based on Denis Johnson’s novella of the same name, sees Edgerton portray Robert Grainier, a logger and railroad worker who witnesses rapid changes to America in the early 20th century.
Co-written by Greg Kwedar and Clint Bentley, the latter of whom also serves as director, the highly-anticipated film is now available to watch in the UK on Netflix, with the period drama being added to the streamer this morning.
In addition to Edgerton and Jones, who have both received praise for their performances, the cast for Train Dreams includes Kerry Condon, Clifton Collins Jr, Will Patton and William H Macy
After premiering at Sundance Film Festival in January, Train Dreams has garnered acclaim from critics, with Rotten Tomatoes currently reporting a near-perfect approval rating of 95% from 133 reviews.
“The film acknowledges the bones of Johnson’s story… The execution is nevertheless lush, sometimes startlingly beautiful, and painterly and evocative of Johnson’s elegiac theme about a bygone America,” noted The Wall Street Journal.
“The grand sweep of our lives, Train Dreams suggests, is the sort of thing we can only begin to understand when we’re reaching life’s end, and even then we may only grasp it dimly,” opined The New York Times.
“So many films make you feel, in hindsight, that no one else could have played those characters except the people who were cast. Edgerton gives you that sensation within the first 30 seconds of him being onscreen here,” wrote Rolling Stone.
IndieWire was also full of praise, writing: “Bentley has crafted a plaintive and affecting film about how every moment holds value. But at the same turn, those moments are always on the verge of evaporating or going down in flames.”
“Director Clint Bentley and co-writer Greg Kwedar… capture the plaintive beauty of Grainier’s life on the margins of 20th-century progress without hamming up the romance or laying on the grit,” wrote The Daily Telegraph.
Train Dreams is streaming now on Netflix.
