Director Dee Rees' Mudbound has been receiving plenty of plaudits after screenings at events such as Sundance and, more recently, the BFI London Film Festival. The drama has a new trailer online.
Adapted from Hillary Jordan's novel by Rees and Virgil Williams, Mudbound is set in rural Mississippi just after World War II. City folk Henry (Jason Clarke) and Laura McAllan (Carey Mulligan) start a new life on a cotton farm in 1946, where Laura feels far from at home, struggling to raise two young children in an isolated shack under the eye of her racist father-in-law. When it rains, the waters rise up and swallow the bridge to town, stranding the family in a sea of mud.
As the war comes to an end, two young men return from Europe to help work the farm. Jamie McAllan (Garrett Hedlund is everything his older brother Henry is not and is sensitive to Laura's plight, but also haunted by his memories of combat. Ronsel Jackson (Jason Mitchell), meanwhile, eldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the farm, comes home from war a hero, only to face far more dangerous battles against the ingrained bigotry of his own countrymen...
The film will be on limited release in the UK from 17 November, and hits Netflix the same day.
Carey Mulligan and Garrett Hedlund to star in indie drama Mudbound