I’ve got good news for all you fans of Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing: It’s exactly the movie you’re looking for. The big-screen adaptation of the best-selling 2018 novel is faithful to a fault, with lyrical shots of marshland and wildlife, golden-hued romance, a woman educating herself, and a murder mystery to
In 2018, retired zoologist Delia Owens, the author of the bestselling 1984 memoir "Cry of the Kalahari," published her first novel at the age of 69. "Where the Crawdads Sing" is set on the North Carolina coast in the 1950s and 60s, threading romance and murder mystery through the life story of a young, isolated woman, Kya, who grows up abandoned in the marsh. The story is a bit far-fetched, the characterizations broad, but there s a beauty in Owens description of Kya s relationship to the natural world. Her derisive nickname, "the Marsh Girl," ultimately becomes her strength.
Sometimes a movie will turn softer than you thought it would more sunny and upbeat and romantic. Then there’s the kind of movie that turns darker than you expect, but this one does both.