
Dawn, a middle aged woman who lives alone in a small town in Montana spends her days working as a maid at a roadside motel and scrounging through junk she purchases at local storage auctions hoping to one day 'hit the jackpot' and fund her travels and her escape from the town. Her humdrum life is slowly upended as Paul, a ramblin' man from her past, rolls like a tumbleweed through her small town. Pitting grand landscapes against dinners of fried chicken and the roar of V8 eng... (Full plot summary below)
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Dawn, a middle aged woman who lives alone in a small town in Montana spends her days working as a maid at a roadside motel and scrounging through junk she purchases at local storage auctions hoping to one day 'hit the jackpot' and fund her travels and her escape from the town. Her humdrum life is slowly upended as Paul, a ramblin' man from her past, rolls like a tumbleweed through her small town. Pitting grand landscapes against dinners of fried chicken and the roar of V8 engines on Saturday nights, Tired Moonlight explores the relationship between extravagant nature and the tiny mundane moments of small town life.
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| New York TimesKen JaworowskiIt certainly demands patience (and a forgiving eye) as it experiments with an odd style. Yet it’s also a compassionate look at characters who don’t dwell on life. Instead, they live. |
| Slant MagazineSean NamIt's to Britni West's credit that she's yoked the film's experimental sequences with the hard reality of characters trying to figure things out. |
| User ReviewMark WWonderful indie debut by Mn filmmaker Britni West and starring St. Paul poet Paul Dickenson. I felt like I was lost in a trance as she alternated scenes of children playing while the people around them tried to make sense of their life. A film that is a subtle commentary on America but also a love letter. |