When Max Walker-Silverman’s “Rebuilding” made its world premiere on the 2025 Sundance Movie Pageant this January, it hit residence for therefore many who had flown in from Los Angeles. After the devastating Palisades and Altadena fires, right here was a fragile drama about life after a wildfire that, for one rancher performed by Josh O’Connor, appears to have claimed nearly all the pieces. Watch the trailer for “Rebuilding” under.”
As IndieWire’s David Ehrlich wrote on this B+ overview of “Rebuilding” from the pageant, “Loath as I’m to label something as ‘the film folks want proper now,’ it’s exhausting to consider Max Walker-Silverman’s ‘Rebuilding’ in every other phrases in the intervening time.”
O’Connor’s character has endured his catastrophe in Colorado, the place he’s been making a dwelling off the land. Now, after the fireplace, the financial institution that holds the mortgage on his property gained’t give him a mortgage to rebuild: He doesn’t have a home to borrow on to put money into the farm itself any longer, and no crops to borrow on to rebuild the home. The film focuses on his tender relationship together with his daughter Callie-Rose (Lily LaTorre) and ex-wife Ruby (“The White Lotus” and “Drop” star Meghann Fahy) as he tries to place the items again collectively.
“O’Connor will be present in nearly each body, typically staring on the filth or squinting on the horizon,” Ehrlich famous in his overview. “There are occasions when it appears like Dusty is little greater than a cowboy hat looking for a personality, however O’Connor’s marble-mouthed uncertainty displays Dusty’s resistance to alter. It’s as if the man is so unwilling to think about a unique future than the one he first envisioned that he can’t even get by a sentence if he doesn’t have the entire thing mapped out prematurely.”
“O’Connor can do extra with a slight shake of his head than some actors may with a whole Shakespearean monologue, and ‘Rebuilding’ isn’t extra nuanced or humane than when you may really feel Dusty retreating from Mila and the opposite sort souls within the FEMA park, afraid that each step he took ahead would take him that a lot additional away from going again.”
Bleecker Road will launch “Rebuilding” in theaters on November 14.
