All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (2023) review

In rural Mississippi, a woman named Mackenzie (played by three actresses: Kaylee Nicole Johnson, Charleen McClure and Zainab Jah), who has a best friend in Josie (Jayah Henry and Moses Ingram), learns how to dispatch a catfish, goes to a funeral, watches a house burn down, starts dating, gets pregnant and has a daughter ... and then admits she likes rain (or something along those lines).  Director Jackson (in her feature debut) decides to take a non-linear approach to her "story" with the barest minimum of dialogue, but it comes across as bad poetry: by the end I feel like I learned almost nothing about the lead's inner world and her hopes and dreams.  Some of the images (the cinematography is by Jomo Fray) are moody and haunting, but as others have noted, there are simply too many shots of hands, to the point where the aesthetic becomes monotonous.  This emerged from a personal place for the filmmaker, but I'm not sure it translates to a broader audience - if it clicks with you, that's all well and good.