I’ve often thought about this woman and wondered what made her act so violently. I guess it wasn’t any one big thing, but a lot of little things that just grew deeper and deeper under her skin. Cozy is living the middle class dream - a house in Dade county, three children and a devoted man by her side working day and night so she can stay at home. Her attempt to break free from this life ends in a bar with Lee. After threatening his grandma with a gun he found in a ditch Lee has, for the first time in thirty years, no where to stay. The evening escalates and by morning they are like Bonnie and Clyde. They have found a new life together on the run from the local authorities, one of them being Cozys dad. „River of Grass“ seems to tell the story of a life Reichardt could have led - born and raised in Florida in a home without any art besides her Law enforcement’s dads jazz vinyls. She tells the story of outcasts, just trying to get by. They are navigating around things going wrong just nearby, but the way their stories are told is often breaking with conventional narratives. After the slight success of her debut in the independent film scene she was not able to realize another feature film for almost ten years. By now her work has gained mainstream recognition, even though she continues to make films on her own terms, far away from Hollywood.