Treindromen
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In een tijd van grote veranderingen in het Amerika van het begin van de 20e eeuw leidt een houthakker een bescheiden leven, terwijl hij liefde en verlies ervaart.
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- rg94007 dgn geledenI'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.
- Joe G25 januari 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.
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Treindromen was released on 6 november 2025.
Treindromen was directed by Clint Bentley.
Treindromen has a runtime of 1 u, 42 m.
Treindromen was produced by Marissa McMahon, Will Janowitz, Teddy Schwarzman, Ashley Schlaifer, Michael Heimler.
In een tijd van grote veranderingen in het Amerika van het begin van de 20e eeuw leidt een houthakker een bescheiden leven, terwijl hij liefde en verlies ervaart.
The key characters in Treindromen are Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton), Gladys Grainier (Felicity Jones), Ignatius Jack (Nathaniel Arcand).
Treindromen is rated 12.
Treindromen is a Drama film.
Treindromen has an audience rating of 9.1 out of 10.
Treindromen had a budget of US$ 10 mln..