Debra Granik, director of movies such as Winter's Bone and Stray Dog is no stranger to coaching great performances from young actors. Here, she has Thomasin McKenzie holding her own against Ben Foster in the thoughtful, dramatic Leave No Trace, which won praise at the Sundance Film Festival has has brought a first trailer online.
Adapted by Granik and Anne Rosellini from Peter Rock's novel My Abandonment (itself inspired by a true story), Trace finds the teenaged Tom (McKenzie) and her father Will (Foster) living – undetected for years – in Forest Park, a vast woods on the edge of Portland, Oregon. A chance encounter leads to their discovery and removal from the park and into the charge of a social service agency.
They try to adapt to their new surroundings, until a sudden decision sets them on a perilous journey into the wilderness seeking complete independence and forcing them to confront their conflicting desire to be part of a community and fierce need to live apart...
Leave No Trace, which also stars Dale Dickey and Jeff Kober, will venture in to UK cinemas on 29 June.
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