Dee Rees is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for Pariah (2011), the HBO film Bessie (2015) and the feature Mudbound (2017).

Mudbound received Academy Award recognition, including nominations for Adapted Screenplay (Dee Rees and Virgil Williams) and for Cinematography (Rachel Morrison, the first woman nominated in that category).

The available review criticizes Mudbound's reliance on heavy voiceover and a flawed adaptation from the novel, praising moments of cinematographic poetry but finding overall dramatic execution lacking. Rachel Morrison's cinematography and Jonathan Banks's performance are singled out as highlights. The review is skeptical of Dee Rees's visual choices and the screenplay's handling of conflict and emotion.

For:film students, critics and viewers interested in adaptation, cinematography and contemporary American drama

 Mudbound, distributed by Netflix in Italy and triumphantly welcomed by American critics at the Sundance Film Festival, is the perfect testing ground to learn the first and most important commandment of cinematic storytelling, that "show, don't tell" taught even at the last screenwriting workshop in the most secluded corner of Los Angeles.

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