Clemency (2019)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.39:1 112m
Director: Chinonye Chukwu
Cast: Alfre Woodard, Richard Schiff, Aldis Hodge, Michael O'Neill, Wendell Pierce
Synopsis:
The warden of a penitentiary housing a number of prisoners on death row approaches her twelfth 'procedure' with mounting trepidation.
Review:
Woodard delivers a first rate performance as the professional wrestling with doing her job with dignity and making peace with herself at home. Relationships with colleagues, families, counsel and her own despairing husband are all explored in an understated manner worthy of so controversial a subject. It could be argued that in taking as its subject a man clearly not guilty beyond a reasonable doubt the film loads the dice in its favour, in a way Dead Man Walking went out of its way not to; but this is the superior film.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.39:1 112m
Director: Chinonye Chukwu
Cast: Alfre Woodard, Richard Schiff, Aldis Hodge, Michael O'Neill, Wendell Pierce
Synopsis:
The warden of a penitentiary housing a number of prisoners on death row approaches her twelfth 'procedure' with mounting trepidation.
Review:
Woodard delivers a first rate performance as the professional wrestling with doing her job with dignity and making peace with herself at home. Relationships with colleagues, families, counsel and her own despairing husband are all explored in an understated manner worthy of so controversial a subject. It could be argued that in taking as its subject a man clearly not guilty beyond a reasonable doubt the film loads the dice in its favour, in a way Dead Man Walking went out of its way not to; but this is the superior film.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.39:1 112m
Director: Chinonye Chukwu
Cast: Alfre Woodard, Richard Schiff, Aldis Hodge, Michael O'Neill, Wendell Pierce
Synopsis:
The warden of a penitentiary housing a number of prisoners on death row approaches her twelfth 'procedure' with mounting trepidation.
Review:
Woodard delivers a first rate performance as the professional wrestling with doing her job with dignity and making peace with herself at home. Relationships with colleagues, families, counsel and her own despairing husband are all explored in an understated manner worthy of so controversial a subject. It could be argued that in taking as its subject a man clearly not guilty beyond a reasonable doubt the film loads the dice in its favour, in a way Dead Man Walking went out of its way not to; but this is the superior film.