Stuart Gatt’s adventurous debut pitches meathead Clyde and his downtrodden wife Geena against city-dwelling newcomers Andy and Amaya
ritish director Stuart Gatt’s confidently handled debut is a tale of two trailers: one a banged-up redneck bolthole in a godforsakendesert commune; the other the minimalist glamping palace opposite. Taciturn meathead Clyde occupies the former with his downtrodden wife, Geena , and is none too pleased when vacationing New Yorkers Andy and Amaya pitch up.
Where many foreign directors come a cropper trying to show fealty to classic American iconography, Gatt has the confidence to do his own thing – kicking this off as a cagey town and country comedy of manners. The urbanites upend Clyde’s established order with deluxe pastries and matcha; after pulling a gun on them in their initial meeting, he retreats to passive-aggressive warfare on the vegetable patch.
Though Catching Dust eventually settles into a more conventional noir register, Gatt commits to his characters and follows them to unlikely destinations . Man-mountain Clyde in particular turns out to have good reason for his controlling behaviour, and this morass of hard-bitten insecurities and abrupt tenderness is superbly portrayed by Courtney despite having precious little dialogue. This is an adventurous and eccentric hunk of desert noir.
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