Conversations with Carey Mulligan of WILDLIFE

Q A with Carey Mulligan of WILDLIFE. Moderated by Bruce Fretts. 14yearold Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerrya housewife and a golf proin a small town in 1960s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled forest fire rages close to the Canadian border, and when Jerry loses his joband his sense of purposehe decides to join the cause of fighting the fire, leaving his wife and son to fend for themselves. Suddenly forced into the role of an adult, Joe witnesses his mothers struggle as she tries to keep her head above water. Actor Paul Dano makes an impressive debut as a filmmaker andalong with cowriter Zoe Kazanelegantly adapts Richard Fords novel of the same name. Carey Mulligan delivers one of her finest performances as a complex woman whose selfdetermination and selfinvolvement disrupts the values and expectations of the 1960s nuclear family. With precise details and textures of its specific time and place, Wildlife commits to the viewpoint of a teenage boy observing the gradual br, br,