WONDER IF you too missed it the first time, the way Jamie, the rancher in , played by Lily Gladstone, grasps the edge of the scarf on Elizabeth (played by Kristen Stewart), how it’s over in a second in the dark, the smallest of gestures scratching the very edge of the frame. After getting to know the tired, fidgety white girl who commutes to teach night classes on school law, the rancher shows up not in her truck but on a horse, a gentler, warier John Wayne, and asks the girl if she’d like a ride. Before saying goodbye, she makes a pass at Elizabeth’s scarf—what a plunge—and Elizabeth nonchalantly pulls the scarf out of the rancher’s hand, as though the act had not registered, as though it had just been caught in a car door. It’s startling, this little grasp. For the time we’ve known
