Sheila Atim Photo: Jaclyn Martinez/A24‘You’re made of dirt, you know that?” So says one character to another in “All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt,” though it isn’t meant as an insult. It carries instead a message of cosmic humility, an awareness of certain inevitable cycles of life, death and renewal. “All Dirt Roads” is difficult to firmly grasp, sometimes frustratingly so, but its textures linger. The movie depicts the life of Mack, a black woman in rural Mississippi, through flashes of memory, feeling and atmosphere. Played as an adult by Charleen McClure , Mack eventually comes to know such challenges as lost love, pregnancy and grief.

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Persons: Sheila Atim, Jaclyn Martinez, You’re, Stanley Kunitz, Raven Jackson, Mack, Kaylee Nicole Johnson, Evelyn, Charleen McClure Locations: Mississippi