Apparently, to many commenters here, if a film doesn't have car chases, explosions, and gunfights, then "nothing much happens". This film is a historical romance and character study. The setting is upstate New York in 1856. The characters are backwoods farmers. You can't really call it "frontier" by this time. No one worries about or mentions any possibility of Indian attacks and no one seems to routinely carry arms. It very much brings home the raw deal (by modern standards) of being a woman in the not-all-that-distant past. Excellent, if sometimes low-key, acting in the main roles by Katherine Waterston and Vanessa Kirby. Although they fall in love, I doubt that either character is actually a lesbian as we know the term today. Photography is excellent, and direction is unobtrusive. Worth seeing.
Review of The World to Come
