STILLWATER Trailer (2021)

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An American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter who is in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit. Confronted with language barriers, cultural differences, and a complicated legal system, Bill makes it his personal mission to exonerate his daughter.

Stillwater (2021) is the new crime movie starring Matt Damon, Abigail Breslin and Camille Cottin.

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Oh wow, he straight up looks like every oil worker I've ever met in Texas, good job nailing that

leothelion

i honestly this was about how Stillwater tasted better than water with bubbles in it

royandescartes

I saw a screening of this and I would recommend it. The story was great and has some interesting moments and charming characters. Don't go in expecting an action romp of Damon smashing his daughter out of prison, it's a mystery.

HondaSquid

When we do something in life, good or bad it makes ripples in time. Or like Matt Damon and his daughter said ... Life is brutal. Great movie. 👍

fonziebulldog

This looks good. Damon could reinvent himself once more as the antihero, along the vein of Liam Neeson. Go Matt! Go Boston!

s.l.

Oh the critics will hate this so it must be good.

knives

Looks good. I don't believe Matt Damon ever made a bad movie.

dwaneyocum

Looks like one of two good movies so far this year:)

lonceystourguidefilms

Starts off with the usual Southern clichés Billy Ray playing in the background then turns into a effective thriller

whoknew

Damon is so gd underrated and why do the credits look like amateur nite?

AraFilmsFire

highly recommended. Hate the attitude of the daughter, ' though. I think she deserves to be in jail... because of her arrogance

farmgirl

An old veteran. Yup, it's happening.

vivekprasad

What I love about Matt Damon is he's such a reliable actor.

androssteague

Matt Damon, ...what did you do, man?! 🤷🤦😊

jameswalker

"Stillwater" rates a solid four stars out of four.
Matt Damon disappears into his role as Bill Baker.

*It bears repeating that this trailer is highly misleading.* "Stillwater" is not an action thriller. Nor is it meant to be a reenactment of a true story. The trailer reflects nothing of the tone or content of the film.
The story is about Bill, not his daughter. In August, I saw "Stillwater" in a real cinema. It was much better than I'd expected. And around me when it ended were quiet murmurs of "Wow!"

"Stillwater" is a nuanced, thoughtful character drama centring on one man – Bill Baker, a laid-off oil-rig worker in Stillwater, Oklahoma – who seeks to rebuild a stable family life and mend his relationship with his estranged daughter Allison (Abigail Breslin). Bill had been mostly an absentee father while she was growing up and she was raised by her grandmother.
Bill is taciturn, bluff, stoic. He can find work as a labourer for a few days or weeks at a time, and gets by as best he can. He knows he hasn't made the most of his life, but he is now clean and sober and wants to do right by his daughter.

"Stillwater" is a film that requires 2¼ hours of observing and thinking. We take in the atmosphere and notice the details. This is a story of life, and love, and loss.

The film's unrushed pacing is just right. We're not given any backstory laid out before us in a tidy preface. We make Bill's acquaintance bit by bit, through brief scenes of his day-to-day life. When he says he's going to see Allison again, it sounds as if he'll probably drive somewhere in his truck.

*SPOILERS BELOW*

Only when he receives his boarding passes at the airport do we learn that seeing Allison is not a simple thing, as the desk agent confirms that he's connecting through Atlanta and Frankfurt.

His destination is the gritty rough-and-tumble southern French port city of Marseilles. Allison went to university there. She is now incarcerated there after having been convicted of a crime that landed her in prison with a nine-year sentence. She has four years left to serve. Bill has set himself the mission of getting Allison exonerated from that crime. The prison's log of Bill's visits reveals that he has made these trips many times.

At his hotel Bill befriends a little girl, Maya (Lilou Siauvaud), when he does her a small act of kindness. Then he meets Maya's mother, Virginie (Camille Cottin).

Here begins the heart of the story.
Bill remains in Marseilles for six months, much longer than he had intended. He lives with Virginie and Maya, first as a lodger, then as something more. Very gradually, imperceptibly at first, his life perspective is being reshaped.

Everyone in the story, whether in Stillwater or Marseilles, is marginalised in some way. There are no powerful or wealthy élites here, only single parents and poorly-paid jobs, and migrants who may be undocumented. These people are cogs who help make things work in our communities. Yet they are left behind as have-nots.

Events and plot twists drive the story forward. Actions have consequences. In his quest to redeem himself as a father, Bill is suddenly faced with a choice and in that moment he makes a great mistake. Soon afterwards, he learns his actions have for years been guided by a tragic misjudgment. His mistake was based on that misjudgment. And he cannot go back and put things right.

The ending is a punch in the gut.
Having accomplished a goal which turns out to be hollow, Bill returns to Stillwater. Nothing looks the same to him any more.
All too late he realises, as do we, that his opportunity for a stable family life is no longer to be found in Stillwater. It slipped through his fingers in Marseilles.

"Stillwater" is a stunner. Matt Damon inhabits Bill Baker's soul brilliantly.
A solid four stars out of four.

darylclayoquot