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The beating heart of Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s fiction feature debut, Nyad, lies in a Mary Oliver quote: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” As well-worn and almost pat as Oliver’s poetry...
The beating heart of Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s fiction feature debut, Nyad, lies in a Mary Oliver quote: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” As well-worn and almost pat as Oliver’s poetry...
- 10/17/2023
- by Manuel Betancourt
- avclub.com
There is no unknown country in “The Unknown Country,” a gently meandering road trip through an America that even those of us directly unacquainted have traveled via the movies: Morrisa Maltz’s lovely second feature trades in the familiar imagery of unfettered highways ribboned through the great, grassy middle of nowhere, roadside inns outlined in humming hot-pink neon, gas stations slumped against the sparse landscape like oily oases. It’s the people building their lives along this route, however, that this sociable, inquisitive docufiction seeks to discover, as Maltz profiles the faces flashing by the driver only passing through. A diner hostess, a convenience store clerk, a motel proprietor — here, all get to share their stories beyond the usual scope of road-movie bit parts.
Indeed, for much of the film’s compact running time, we learn more about these foregrounded background figures — playing themselves with generous candor and good humor...
Indeed, for much of the film’s compact running time, we learn more about these foregrounded background figures — playing themselves with generous candor and good humor...
- 7/28/2023
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
There isn’t much of a story in Joanna Hogg’s heartfelt and searingly honest “The Souvenir” — the British filmmaker, somehow a breakthrough talent for the last 30 years, has always been less interested in plot than condition — and so this romantic drama about a young woman’s doomed first love might just as well be summarized by a poem from the late Mary Oliver:
“Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.”
Set in the early 1980s, shot with the gauzy harshness of “Phantom Thread,” and named after an 18th century rococo painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, “The Souvenir” finds Hogg reaching into her own past in order to reclaim it as a present; it’s a somewhat disguised self-portrait that’s sketched with almost four decades of distance between its artist and her canvas,...
“Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.”
Set in the early 1980s, shot with the gauzy harshness of “Phantom Thread,” and named after an 18th century rococo painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, “The Souvenir” finds Hogg reaching into her own past in order to reclaim it as a present; it’s a somewhat disguised self-portrait that’s sketched with almost four decades of distance between its artist and her canvas,...
- 1/28/2019
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck may have finalized their divorce back in October, but the exes appear to be keeping things friendly. On Sunday, Jen and Ben reunited for church service in La with their kids, Violet, 13, Seraphina, 10, and Samuel, 6. The pair seemed to be on good terms as they chatted and Jen flashed a few smiles. "Ben and Jen have immense love and respect for one another," Us Weekly previously reported. "They still coparent together and that will always come first."
Jen has since moved on with tech CEO John Miller, and from the looks of it, their romance is heating up! After it was rumored that they were planning a romantic holiday getaway together, the couple were spotted showing some sweet Pda just before the new year. Ben, on the other hand, continues to work on his sobriety and is busy filming his new movie, Torrance.
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Jen has since moved on with tech CEO John Miller, and from the looks of it, their romance is heating up! After it was rumored that they were planning a romantic holiday getaway together, the couple were spotted showing some sweet Pda just before the new year. Ben, on the other hand, continues to work on his sobriety and is busy filming his new movie, Torrance.
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- 1/22/2019
- by Monica Sisavat
- Popsugar.com
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