Writer-director Shannon Triplett’s feature debut revolves around a lone traveler caught in a seemingly endless spiral after an accident in the Mojave.
If you’ve driven through the vast expanse of the California desert, you’ve probably experienced a certain edge-of-the-world mix of fascination and dread. And you no doubt know, too, that a sign announcing “Next service 72 miles,” like the one that appears in the opening minutes of, is not a warning to be taken lightly.
Among these is a towering and weathered sign for a long-defunct roadside restaurant, one of the ghost-town relics of Route 66’s heyday, before an interstate left it in the dust. At the isolated gas station where she stops to refuel, the Woman meets a weirdly nervous and inquisitive clerk, played to off-putting perfection by Max Mattern.
The ace editing and sound design are in sync with the drama’s pounding heart as Froseth’s character finds herself not just in an existential loop but in a geographical one: Again and again, no matter which way she walks along the empty two-lane straightaway, she’s back at her damaged car.
Explanations, when they arrive in such meltdown tales, can be the drama’s undoing, or at least a serious letdown. Here, though, Triplett’s space-time continuum, or dis-continuum, not only sustains its momentum in riveting fashion, but it also strikes unexpected emotional notes in the brief, sharp turns by Fisher, Bridges and Hurst.
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