The quietly ambitious debut of filmmaker Raven Jackson is less a story than an impressionistic portrait of a girl coming of age in rural Mississippi.
“All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt,” the quietly ambitious debut of writer-director Raven Jackson, is not a conventional narrative: Its rhythms and gestures suggest looking toward the likes of Terrence Malick, William Faulkner and Maya Angelou for their elliptical meanings. Less a story than an impressionistic portrait of a girl coming of age in rural Mississippi, this deliberately paced meditation on family, first love, nature and beauty could fairly be described as “slow cinema.
Opening to a symphony of crickets and bird chirps, “All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt” begins when its main character, Mackenzie, is being taught to fish by her father; Jackson films their hands in extreme close-up, intently observing the line growing taut with each click of the reel. Mack, as her family calls her, is less interested in the mechanics of fishing than in the mystery of life and death: When she finally catches a fish, she strokes it while the creature takes its final breaths.
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