Father, daughter find home with each other in beautifully observed ‘Leave No Trace’
“Leave No Trace” is director Debra Granik’s first narrative feature since 2010’s “Winter’s Bone,” which set up Jennifer Lawrence for Hollywood stardom.
Granik’s time away makes sense. Such an extraordinary eye for talent needs its rest.
The discovery in “Leave No Trace” — a beautifully observed, deliberately paced film about a homeless father and daughter on an odyssey in the Pacific Northwest — is teenage actress Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie. She plays Tom, devoted daughter to Will (Ben Foster), a traumatized veteran who lives with Tom off the grid, and illegally, in a wooded public park.