Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.39:1 125m
Director: Olivia Newman
Cast: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Taylor John Smith, Harris Dickinson, David Strathairn, Sterling Macer Jr.
Synopsis:
Abandoned by her family, a girl grows up in the Carolina marshlands of the 50s and 60s. She is shunned by most of the local townsfolk, and exploited by one, but sustained by her love of nature and her written and drawn observations of her environment.
Review:
Commercially prettified filming of a successful novel, adopting a disordered chronology not always in harmony with the feature film format, but with a strong central performance that effectively substitutes for the book's overarching focus. The rough justice meted out to the story's predatory Chase Andrews is dramatically satisfying but unsatisfactorily explained in a manner, again, which might work better on the page than on film.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.39:1 125m
Director: Olivia Newman
Cast: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Taylor John Smith, Harris Dickinson, David Strathairn, Sterling Macer Jr.
Synopsis:
Abandoned by her family, a girl grows up in the Carolina marshlands of the 50s and 60s. She is shunned by most of the local townsfolk, and exploited by one, but sustained by her love of nature and her written and drawn observations of her environment.
Review:
Commercially prettified filming of a successful novel, adopting a disordered chronology not always in harmony with the feature film format, but with a strong central performance that effectively substitutes for the book's overarching focus. The rough justice meted out to the story's predatory Chase Andrews is dramatically satisfying but unsatisfactorily explained in a manner, again, which might work better on the page than on film.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.39:1 125m
Director: Olivia Newman
Cast: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Taylor John Smith, Harris Dickinson, David Strathairn, Sterling Macer Jr.
Synopsis:
Abandoned by her family, a girl grows up in the Carolina marshlands of the 50s and 60s. She is shunned by most of the local townsfolk, and exploited by one, but sustained by her love of nature and her written and drawn observations of her environment.
Review:
Commercially prettified filming of a successful novel, adopting a disordered chronology not always in harmony with the feature film format, but with a strong central performance that effectively substitutes for the book's overarching focus. The rough justice meted out to the story's predatory Chase Andrews is dramatically satisfying but unsatisfactorily explained in a manner, again, which might work better on the page than on film.