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Saw really fantastic film last night - Winter's Bone, dir. Deborah Granik and starring Jennifer Lawrence as a seventeen year old girl in a small, desperately poor Ozark community, who is trying to discover what's happened to her father, before she, her sick mother, and her two younger siblings lose the house her dad posted as bail before vanishing. It's not, obviously, a cheerful film, but it's wonderfully acted - there wasn't a single character who didn't feel like a real human being - beautifully shot, and, in it's grim way, does leave you moved by the human capacity for bravery, love, and generally to kbo. There is the odd fairly monstrous act, but no monsters. See it if you can.