WHITETAIL (TIFF 2025) – Review by Rachel West
The forest is a source of comfort and torment in director and writer Nanouk Leopold’s latest feature, Whitetail.
A vividly verdant Irish forest opens Whitetail. It is the central setting of the film, a beautiful, raw, natural setting that beckons Jen (Natasha O’Keeffe) from her youth to her present-day job as a forest ranger. Here she protects and oversees this patch of mossy paradise, protecting the land and the creatures within from poachers.
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