Jennifer Lawrence in Winter's Bone

The Missouri Ozark forests in winter and their unkempt homesteads and rusting pickups are the bitter physical landscape of this haunting film. These are no Beverley Hillbillies – life is a matter of raw survival - there are clearly no hairdressers, no handbags, no tumble dryers, no lipstick. 

To read Jane Leek's review on Thinking Faith  see: www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/FILM_20101008_1.htm