Astonishment and joy. As narrated through words written in Abigail’s (Katherine Waterston) ledger, Mona Fastvold‘s The World to Come ultimately proves less a romance than a survival film thanks to its 1856 frontier New York setting. More than simply an aesthetic choice on behalf of writers Jim Shepard (upon whose story it’s based) and Ron Hansen, its era of hardship, tragedy, and oppression becomes a character unto itself. As with all eras (our own included), however, those hardships, tragedies, and invisibly oppressive prisons of circumstance are much more dire where…
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