An old man at odds with his brother and each of them lives in a place away from the other reaches the old man's answer that his brother is sick and decides to go to his brother despite the length of the distance and in the way will face many of the difficulties and risks and problems that will offer to die.
Lynch and legendary cinematographer Freddie Francis have crafted a hauntingly lovely mise-en-scène.
City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
August 21, 2009
One could say that The Straight Story is a twilight Western on the order of Unforgiven, except that the pale rider here mounts a snail-paced John Deere instead of a stallion.
Is The Straight Story one of my favorite Lynch films? Hard to say. Is it one of his most meticulously, and perfectly constructed? Well, I just can't disagree on that one.
