Jeremy Saulnier
In “Rebel Ridge,” a young Black marine attempts to rescue his cousin from a corrupt small-town police department.
With some of his most impressively staged set pieces to date, Hold the Dark proves that Jeremy Saulnier is one of the most assured genre filmmakers working today.
In Hold The Dark, a writer named Russell Core (Jeffrey Wright) is hired by the parents of a missing six-year-old boy to track down and locate their son in the Alaskan wilderness.
Green Room marks the second of writer/director Jeremy Saulnier’s blood-drenched thrillers to have premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. You may have heard whispers about 2013’s Blue Ruin as it trickled out of the festival circuit, lauded by audiences and critics alike as a paradigm of the vigilante genre. Now Saulnier takes on the backwoods, pitting some young punk rockers against a group of white supremacists.
Director Jeremy Saulnier’s debut film Blue Ruin marked him out as a director to watch, a spiritual heir to the throne of the Coen Brothers at their most violent. Like the Coens in their bloodthirsty prime, Saulnier filled Blue Ruin with borderline absurdist humour and fully fleshed out characters who would appear as nothing more than walking quirks were they not so perfectly realised. Most importantly, he achieved something that few other Coen imitators manage – he perfectly understood that the violence in their movies takes place in a moral universe, where no evil deed goes unpunished.