The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd review – Amanda Seyfried compels in wrenching prison drama

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Toronto film festival: Tim Blake Nelson writes and directs a challenging, and unsettling, look at empathy and forgiveness that strikes a haunting noteThere are troubling questions posed in Tim Blake Nelson’s effectively glum prison drama The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd, a film that will rank among the most overwhelmingly feel-awful experiences of this year’s Toronto film festival. It’s a story told in a disarmingly folksy manner with plucked guitar strings and down south homespun wisdom befo