Train Dreams
Réalisé par Clint Bentley7.594%91%7.3
Entre histoire d'amour et deuil, un bûcheron vit un paisible état de grâce dans le monde en pleine mutation du début du 20e siècle en Amérique.
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- LeRoy Lees21 mars 2026Not a great story but good acting and beautiful cinematography.
- rod.cha1 décembre 2025Okay. I’m gonna say it out loud. I think this a man’s movie. It is best watched alone, without distraction.
- Hireforfire25 novembre 2025Hits hard if you let it. One to be experienced.
- rg940023 novembre 2025I'll preface this by saying that I fully recognize that Train Dreams is not my type of movie. It is slow, quiet, contemplative, meditative, and reflective. It has moments of surrealism weaved throughout. The majority of the movie skips around time, either just focusing in on the main character as he goes about mundane activities or simple conversations with others. This type of intense memoiresque character study of someone living a simple life might really work for some people, but it just isn't my thing. It takes half of the movie until I found it got to the main interior conflict of the character. I think this type of event and its aftermath could have been really insightful and emotional, but the movie is so subdued that I struggled to really feel the emotions to the extent that I should have. The psuedo-philosophical conversations didn't do much for me. The movie itself admits that the character keeps looking for something that gives it all meaning. Joel Edgerton does a decent job, but I do not think he blew me away. The one thing that I did really appreciate was the cinematography, with some really nice images throughout. I think it just did not move me, and for a movie like this, that's the key thing it has to accomplish. I personally liked The Life of Chuck more for something that felt very similar in how it followed a simple character through time and found beauty in small moments despite larger tragedies. I think that's a better blueprint for creating that critical pathos, and this movie just pales in comparison.
- makdelart18 mars 2026A beautiful, deeply humanistic film about a man suspended somewhere in time, who is to the world around him what we are: inhabitants of Earth, like a speck of dust suspended in the Universe
- icedvovo23 novembre 2025Train Dreams lingers. A quiet ache of love, loss, and the small, fragile lives we build in the vastness of this world. It’s a film that doesn’t raise its voice, yet somehow speaks directly into your soul.
- SirMonkalot14 mars 2026This may be the most beautiful film I have ever seen.
- Audrey Layman8 mars 2026yeah so maybe don’t watch Train Dreams and Hamnet back to back
- Arthur Zepeda7 mars 2026Train Dreams was one of the Best Picture nominees that I genuinely enjoyed watching. It is a quiet period piece that takes you back to an earlier time in American history and shows the kind of life many ordinary people lived during that era. The story follows a working man trying to make his way through a changing world, and it really captures the feeling of how tough and isolated life could be for people building railroads and living in the rural Northwest. It is not a flashy movie at all, but it pulls you in with its atmosphere and the way it shows the passage of time in a person’s life. Joel Edgerton gives a strong performance as a man who is mostly quiet and reserved, but you can feel the weight of everything he experiences. Felicity Jones also brings a lot of warmth to the story and helps ground the emotional side of the film. One thing many reviewers pointed out is how the movie focuses on the small moments in life rather than big dramatic events. It is more about memory, loss, and how a simple life can still be full of meaning. What I appreciated most is how the film lets the story breathe. It does not rush, and the scenery and cinematography really help place you in that time period. Critics have also praised the film for its reflective tone and how it captures the loneliness and beauty of frontier life. For me, it was one of those movies that just quietly stays with you after it is over. I can definitely understand why it ended up getting a Best Picture nomination.
- Jack Blitz5 mars 2026The privilege of life is experiencing pain, heartbreak, and mystery just as much as love, laughter, and purpose. A beautiful film that explores the magic of the journey.
- Paul Walsh3 mars 2026Quite possibly my favorite film of 2025. I love the acting. I love the themes. I love the kindness that seeps through even when misery is front and center. A traditional, old-styled Hollywood movie that feels prescient in our AI riddled workforce horizons.
- Inceptah25 novembre 2025Movies like this are rare now. Honest, handcrafted, and shot entirely on location. Train Dreams feels tangible in every frame: a work of art from start to finish. It’s intimate, poetic, and quietly devastating. The kind of film that reminds you what cinema can be.
- Joe G25 janvier 2026Filmed as if watching a photograph slowly reveal a time and place. Not every book needs an adaptation, and it’s fair to question whether this novella required one, but this film makes a compelling case for its own existence. Every word on the page is felt onscreen. If there were ever an example of what a perfect adaptation looks like, this would be it. Every scene feels constructed in quiet tribute to the source material. Some lines are simply too well written to be discarded, necessitating voiceover rather than dilution, while the dialogue is so rich it’s impossible not to recognize the presence of a genuine writer behind it. This is the difference between a script that fills space and one that carries meaning. Perhaps this story didn’t strictly need an adaptation, but it certainly needed this soundtrack, which deepens and elevates what’s already on the page. Beautiful in every aspect, the film is patient, restrained, and deeply attentive to texture, silence, and duration. It carries an unmistakable Americana quality, evoking a lineage that recalls There Will Be Blood, A Ghost Story, The Tree of Life, and The Fountain—not in imitation, but in a shared preoccupation with time, memory, labor, and mortality. If it weren’t up against One Battle After Another and Sinners, this would be the best film of the year.
- russrev1ews2 mars 2026Kirkland Signature™ Terrance Malick.
- jackmeat6 février 2026My quick rating - 6.9/10. Another Best Picture nominee strolls into the room wearing suspenders, carrying an axe, and speaking in a hushed, poetic voiceover. And that would be Train Dreams. Directed by Clint Bentley and based on Denis Johnson’s beloved novella, this is the kind of film that doesn’t knock on the door, it gently taps once, then waits while you check the peephole for interest. The story follows Robert Grainier, a logger and railroad worker living through the early 20th century as America slowly trades trees for smokestacks. It’s a portrait of a simple, decent man trying to build a simple, decent life, which of course means cinema law requires tragedy to drop in unannounced like a piano from a third-floor window. The emotional core is intentionally minimalistic - love, family, loss, memory, and the slow erasure of ways of life that once felt permanent. Joel Edgerton delivers a terrific performance as Robert Grainier, restrained and quietly powerful. He does more with silence and posture than some actors manage with three monologues and a courtroom breakdown. I’m honestly surprised he didn’t land a nomination here. He also recently popped up in The Plague with another strong showing, though with less screen dominance than he commands here. Felicity Jones plays Gladys, the love of his life, bringing warmth and softness to a role that, unfortunately, feels a bit underdeveloped. And that’s where the film stumbled for me. The central love story, the emotional engine that’s supposed to power the grief, feels too abbreviated. We’re told it’s profound rather than truly showing it becomes profound. When the tragedy hits, it lands more as an idea than a gut punch. It’s the difference between reading a love letter and seeing the relationship unfold. One stings more. There’s also one moment that genuinely made me tilt my head like a confused dog. When men are dragging away Robert’s Asian co-worker, our concerned hero grabs the guy’s legs in a way that looks less like intervention and more like he’s helping move a couch being thrown off the bridge. It didn't look like confronting the men for assaulting the coworker - it looked like assisting them in the assault. Maybe I misread the staging, but it stuck out enough to make my notes. Visually, though, the film is a beauty. The forest landscapes are rich and immersive, the period detail is excellent, and the wildfire sequences are shot with suffocating dread. Bentley directs with a delicate hand. This movie is a whisper while most theaters are busy screaming explosions at you. It’s meditative, patient, and atmospheric, sometimes a bit too much. The pacing is undeniably slow, and while that will absolutely work for some of you, the story never quite builds enough tension or momentum to leave a lasting impression with me. Still, it’s thoughtful and well-crafted, just a bit too emotionally distant to hit masterpiece status. A good film, a respectable nominee, but not my Best Picture of the year.
Train Dreams Trivia
Train Dreams was released on 6 novembre 2025.
Train Dreams was directed by Clint Bentley.
Train Dreams has a runtime of 1h 42min.
Train Dreams was produced by Marissa McMahon, Will Janowitz, Teddy Schwarzman, Ashley Schlaifer, Michael Heimler.
Entre histoire d'amour et deuil, un bûcheron vit un paisible état de grâce dans le monde en pleine mutation du début du 20e siècle en Amérique.
The key characters in Train Dreams are Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton), Gladys Grainier (Felicity Jones), Ignatius Jack (Nathaniel Arcand).
Train Dreams is rated PG-13.
Train Dreams is a Drame film.
Train Dreams has an audience rating of 9.1 out of 10.
Train Dreams had a budget of 10 M $US.