From Page To Screen: Winter's Bone (2010)

Screening as part of the 2025 From Page To Screen film festival

Introduced by festival curator Andrew Chater

Winter’s Bone catapulted a young Jennifer Lawrence to stardom with this vividly naturalistic thriller set in Missouri’s Ozark Mountains. Debra Granik’s starkly beautiful film ratchets up the tension of Daniel Woodrell’s backwoods whodunnit and delivers some genuinely heart-stopping moments.

Lawrence’s unflinching, 17-year-old Ree faces the challenges of her impoverished mountain community with dignity and grit in a mesmerising performance that secured her first Academy Award nomination. Oscar-nominated John Hawkes is equally powerful as her drug-dealing uncle and both Granik and Anne Rosellini were also up for Best Adapted Screenplay and the film itself for Best Motion Picture.

Dir. Debra Granick, USA 2010, 100 mins. With Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Kevin Breznahan, Dale Dickey.

Certificate 15

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Bridport Arts Centre

Thursday 24 April at 5pm

Tickets: £6.50 (Under 25’s £6.00)

Tickets available from Bridport Tourist Information Centre, Bridport Town Hall, South Street DT6 3LF. Tel: 01308 424901 or online HERE