Regardless of all the films made about habit, the subject doesn’t naturally lend itself to tidy cinematic narratives. (Not less than, when portrayed precisely.) Whereas actors usually visualize the situation of substance dependency via expressive bodily outbursts, the fact of restoration tends to be a lot quieter. It’s a strolling contradiction of presence outlined by absence. It’s inside this liminal terrain the place filmmaker Adam Meeks phases his function directorial debut, “Union County.”
The movie operates on an anti-narrative logic for Will Poulter’s Cody, a recovering opioid addict firstly of a court-mandated restoration program.