LEAVE NO TRACE (PG)

DIRECTOR: Debra Granik

BASED ON: My Abandonment; by Peter Rock

STARS: Ben Foster, Jeff Kober, Dale Dickey, Isaiah Stone, Dana Millican, Thomasin McKenzie

A father and daughter live a perfect but mysterious existence in Forest Park, a beautiful nature reserve near Portland, Ore, rarely making contact with the world. But when a small mistake tips them off to authorities, they are sent on an increasingly erratic journey in search of a place to call their own.

A deeply affecting story. (New York Post)

Debra Granik is the exceptional film-maker who directed Winter’s Bone in 2010, launching the career of Jennifer Lawrence, and now she returns with this deeply intelligent, complex, finely tuned and observed movie, adapted by Granik and her screenwriting partner, Anne Rosellini, from the novel My Abandonment by Peter Rock. (The Guardian)

Foster and McKenzie seem almost symbiotic here, with the young actress delivering a startlingly confident performance that is, by every measure, the equal of Fosters' (Washington Post)

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