'Rock Springs' is a slow burn that's both haunting and full of heart

'Rock Springs' is a slow burn that's both haunting and full of heart

If you’ve ever walked into a room, driven through a small town, or simply existed in a space where white cis-het norms were mandatory—and felt the dreaded weight of unwelcome eyes upon you—then the pervasive sense of dread and foreboding that writer-director Vera Miao and cinematographer Heyjin Jun capture in Rock Springs will be eerily and achingly familiar.The film, which made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival last month, stars out actre…