![]() But it’s one that makes a perfect kind of sense given where she’s coming from. At the end of the picture, this Starling gets out of her cage - perhaps only temporarily - in a way you might not anticipate. To her great credit (and one must also mention the production design by Mollie Wartell, and the low-key but on occasion lush cinematography by Brian Lannin), Parmet here creates an environment that feels lived-in, and portrays it without condescension.Īnd Scanlen’s detailed work keeps the movie emotionally credible. Writer-director Parmet is the daughter of a cinematographer, Phil Parmet, and she studied film at New York University. ![]() He wrinkled his nose and said, not without affection, “Commendable, albeit a little … anthropological, I think.” When certain filmmakers presume to contrive stories of rural people of faith, there’s always the risk that a certain academicism, and some worse things, will dominate their explorations. Many years ago, I was having a conversation with a musician in which I brought up his bandmate’s recent and enthusiastic exploration of blues music. ![]()
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