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Big Muddy

Jefferson Moneo
United States, 2015, 104 min.

In English.
Includes violence, nudity, sexual content and adult language.

An outlaw tale played out as a modern day murder ballad, Big Muddy follows grifter Martha Barlow who must come to terms with her dark past after her teenage son commits a horrible crime. On the run to survive she must dodge her sociopathic revenge-seeking former flame, and attempt to reconcile with her son's dangerous and long forgotten father in order to protect her estranged family.

Director's Statement

David Lynch once said that Sunset Boulevard was his favorite film because it represented the type of world that he wanted to live in. After making the short films Big Muddy and Going South, I knew I had found a world that I wanted to live in. This was a world of outlaws, dark secrets, and violent retribution. The setting for this world was a mythological Saskatchewan rooted in the folklore of the province

Category: Western.
Themes: Family, Identity, World Cinema.