In the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, two farming families—one of white Iandholders, one of Black tenant farmers—are bound by the unforgiving soil they share as they struggIe to survive amid the upheavals of World War Il and the poisonous hatred of the Jim Crow South. Each family sends a young man off to battIe; when they return home, scarred, and find a common bond, the community is ripped apart.
Writer-director Dee Rees, with cowriter VirgiI WilIiams, crafts a uniquely American tragedy, imbuing bitter historicaI reaIities with a timeless weight. Featuring bone-deep performances from her ensemble cast—including Carey Mulligan, Mary J. Blige, Jason MitcheIl, Rob Morgan, Garrett HedIund, Jason CIarke, and Jonathan Banks—and backed by RacheI Morrison’s darkIy burnished cinematography, Mudbound is a searing humanist study of inheritance based upon HiIlary Jordan’s noveI. |