Leave No Trace – 7

This could be viewed as a film about the PTSD of Vietnam veterans, a father-daughter relationship or social communities, but I admired it most for the coming-of-age performance by Thomasin McKenzie, a wonderfully ingenuous New Zealand actress. She seemed to grow up as she moved from the forest to living with others, even while her father couldn’t change. After reading the brilliant novel, “Yellow Birds,” I wasn’t surprised by the father’s inability to cope with society, but it still seemed rather a stretch to believe he could survive and raise his daughter on a diet of foraged mushrooms. But as I’ve said, concerns about the plot – and I had many – took a back seat to the pleasure of watching Tom.

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