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It seems she has the capacity to literally shed her own skin, so fully does she step into her roles, with three Oscar nominations starting with her breakout in 2005's "Brokeback Mountain."
It’d be a frigid viewer indeed who didn’t sigh for her in Brokeback Mountain or Blue Valentine, and her Oscar-nominated turn as Marilyn Monroe had that vulnerable, poor-me quality nailed.
The Worst Person in the World (2021)
Directed by Joachim Trier
influenced by Take This Waltz (2011)
Themes
Although shades of 500 Days of Summer (2009), or, more particularly, Take This Waltz (2011) might feel immediately evident, The Worst Person in the World feels more comprehensive, more formidable in its complexities than many contemporaries—it’s a hard won feat to seamlessly capture the difficulty of getting what you thought you wanted only to realize it’s not what you want or need.
Similar to Sarah Polley’s Take This Waltz , the narrative sees our heroine possess a lack of clarity with a subtle degree of selfishness but Julie’s struggle is a relatable one: does she want children, should she want them or is she expected to have them?
The bastard spawn of Away from Her (2006) and Hereditary (2018) – with a dusting of mutant spores from Mark Danielewski’s 2000 postmodern cult novel, House of Leaves – Relic takes the everyday tribulations of countless families and infuses them with a fresh, darkling resonance.
Whenever Valerie needs a break from her parents, she goes to visit her grandmother (Oscar-nominated legend Julie Christie from "Away from Her," "Finding Neverland" and "Troy").
Nothing about Christie's performance argued otherwise, and this is the perspective of someone who has long cherished her in movies from McCabe & Mrs. Miller right through Away from Her, the film that earned her most recent Oscar nomination.
Her screenplay (a rewrite of a draft by Away From Her director Sarah Polley) draws not only on Louisa May Alcott's beloved 1868 novel but on various other works of the author.
And yet, it never feels completely bothersome to me, which I think is due almost solely to Sarah Polley, one of the greatest English-language actresses working right now (and based on the evidence of Away from Her , one of the most exciting new indie directors to keep watching).
It's good to see Polley back on screen, after her successful turn behind the camera directing 2006's Away From Her .
Sarah Polley, herself nominated for an Academy Award for her screenplay for "Away From Her," plays his ambitious girlfriend, who while working for a biotech company goes rogue and creates her own part-human, part-animal hybrid.
Their sex is passionate, creative, frequent and takes place all over Toronto, which hasn’t looked this gemlike gorgeous on camera since Sarah Polley’s Take This Waltz.
The other recent Alzheimer’s movies are Bille August ’s “ A Song for Martin ” (2002), Nick Cassavetes ’ “ The Notebook ” (2004), and Erik Van Looy ’s “ The Memory of a Killer ” (2005).
Unlike The Notebook and Iris, Away from Her does not embrace the tear-jerker label.
On the surface, Away from Her bears a resemblance to Nick Cassavete’s treacly The Notebook (2004), since both films deal with husbands trying to break through the wall of lost memory with their wives, but there all similarity ends.
It's like an edgier, literary "The Notebook."
Anyway, that framework provides The Notebook with its only really noteworthy break from cliché, which is to present geriatric love defying mental deterioration in a sweet and supportive light, and even there, it would have its ass handed to it a couple of years later by Away from Her .
…itself, not being another city, defining that metropolis’ substantial charm much the way Sarah Polley did with her dreamily summery “Take This Waltz” and its lived-in production design.
Alongside Sarah Polley (Away from Her), Ben tops the list of smashing debuts this year.
Ostensibly intended to be an investigatory documentary into old family secrets (a sort of tween attempt at Stories We Tell, perhaps), Becca’s film quickly morphs into horror as “Nana and Pop Pop” turn out to be very weird, perhaps even dangerous people.