Critics Praise Two New Dramas at Telluride Film Festival

Film critics have highlighted Andrew Haigh’s winter western A Long Winter and Mike Leigh’s dementia drama Tender Loving Care as standout features at the Telluride Film Festival. Both films received acclaim for their nuanced character studies and strong lead performances.

5 Sept, 01:47 — 5 Sept, 02:30

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Mike Leigh’s latest feature has premiered at the prestigious Telluride Film Festival amid widespread speculation that it may be his final film due to his advanced age and health. The movie’s exploration of social work, dementia, and intergenerational friendship resonates deeply in an aging global population, positioning it as a significant entry in contemporary character-driven cinema. Early critical acclaim at Telluride suggests it could become a notable awards-season contender before potentially concluding Leigh’s celebrated career.

Key entitiesMike Leigh Kate O’Flynn Alice Bailey Johnson Telluride Film Festival Marion Bailey Paul Jesson

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The GuardianMostly Factual1h ago

A Long Winter review – hope, desire and subversion in Andrew Haigh’s beautiful winter western

Telluride film festival In a remote Colorado farmstead, a family with a mother gone missing finds a strange buoyancy and freedom as they wait for the snows to melt Andrew Haigh’s mysterious and beautiful new film is adapted by him from the 2006 story by Colm Tóibín, transplanting the action from the 1930s Spanish Pyrenees to the wintry, vertiginous landscapes of Colorado about the time of the Korean war. It is a poignant, subversive study of grief and desire, and the terrible, infantilised lo...

By Peter Bradshaw

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‘A Long Winter’ Review: Andrew Haigh’s Moody Drama, Set on a Farm in the Rockies in the Early ’50s, Is a Sweeping Act of Cinematic Storytelling

Based on a novella by Colm Tóibín, it’s a movie austere enough to risk alienating its audience, yet if you get onto its wavelength you stay right there, inside the movie’s world.

By Owen Gleiberman

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‘A Long Winter’ Review: Fred Hechinger and Ebon Moss-Bachrach Shine as Family Thrust Into Uneasy Isolation in Andrew Haigh’s Fine-Grained Drama

Also featuring Caitríona Balfe, Kit Connor and D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, the film — adapted from Colm Tóibín's novella — measures the after-effects of a disappearance in the Rocky Mountains in the 1950s.

By David Rooney

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‘Tender Loving Care’ Review: Kate O’Flynn Stars In What Could Be Mike Leigh’s Final Film, But It Happens To Be One Of His Best – Telluride Film Festival

There has been much talk in film circles that the great Mike Leigh’s latest film, Tender Loving Care, might be his last. Health issues, general aging and other things can get in the way for all of us, but if this turns out to be his finale, at least in terms of feature films — […]

By Pete Hammond

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First report: deadline · 5 Sept, 01:47|Full coverage: 4 · 43m|Window: 43m

deadline5 Sept, 01:47First to report

‘Tender Loving Care’ Review: Kate O’Flynn Stars In What Could Be Mike Leigh’s Final Film, But It Happens To Be One Of His Best – Telluride Film Festival

hollywood-reporter5 Sept, 02:30

‘A Long Winter’ Review: Fred Hechinger and Ebon Moss-Bachrach Shine as Family Thrust Into Uneasy Isolation in Andrew Haigh’s Fine-Grained Drama

variety5 Sept, 02:30

‘A Long Winter’ Review: Andrew Haigh’s Moody Drama, Set on a Farm in the Rockies in the Early ’50s, Is a Sweeping Act of Cinematic Storytelling

The Guardian5 Sept, 02:30Latest update

Critics Praise Two New Dramas at Telluride Film Festival

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A Long Winter review – hope, desire and subversion in Andrew Haigh’s beautiful winter western

‘A Long Winter’ Review: Andrew Haigh’s Moody Drama, Set on a Farm in the Rockies in the Early ’50s, Is a Sweeping Act of Cinematic Storytelling

‘A Long Winter’ Review: Fred Hechinger and Ebon Moss-Bachrach Shine as Family Thrust Into Uneasy Isolation in Andrew Haigh’s Fine-Grained Drama

‘Tender Loving Care’ Review: Kate O’Flynn Stars In What Could Be Mike Leigh’s Final Film, But It Happens To Be One Of His Best – Telluride Film Festival

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‘Tender Loving Care’ Review: Kate O’Flynn Stars In What Could Be Mike Leigh’s Final Film, But It Happens To Be One Of His Best – Telluride Film Festival

‘A Long Winter’ Review: Fred Hechinger and Ebon Moss-Bachrach Shine as Family Thrust Into Uneasy Isolation in Andrew Haigh’s Fine-Grained Drama

‘A Long Winter’ Review: Andrew Haigh’s Moody Drama, Set on a Farm in the Rockies in the Early ’50s, Is a Sweeping Act of Cinematic Storytelling

A Long Winter review – hope, desire and subversion in Andrew Haigh’s beautiful winter western

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