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Janet Planet - Magical Realist - Nov 24, 2024
Another A24 gem from playwright Anne Baker. Filmed in a very distinctive and real life way,
I was always expecting something dramatic and sensational to happen. But like real life instead of like a movie, it moves along contemplatively and lovingly thru the silences and spaces in between the moments.
"Set in 1991 rural Western Massachusetts, the superb debut film from Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Annie Baker is a work of surreal tranquility that moves at a different, lost pace of life, and which perceives heartbreak just as Lacy is beginning to grasp the world and her place in it. Baker has created a film about a mother and daughter quite unlike any other, heightening the viewer’s senses and expressing oceans of feeling with the smallest gestures.:---
https://www.filmlinc.org/films/janet-planet/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aBF_v0gvpQ
RE: Janet Planet - C C - Nov 27, 2024
I have a sense of déjà vu that I've seen it before, but surely not -- I wouldn't forget 2023 that quick. Four years seems to be the edge of where my memory loss or extremely premature dementia begins creeping in. Like with "Vivarium" -- it took a couple of minutes for the overhead bulb to finally register on that one (I viewed it in 2020, I believe, especially if not actually released in the US in 2019). Probably just stumbled across the trailer of "Janet Planet" seven months ago.