Updated 24 min 19 sec ago
Gautaman Bhaskaran
April 05, 2021 16:59
CHENNAI: Oscar-nominated actress Frances McDormand plays a disenfranchised widow in “Nomadland,” where she takes to the road in a van after she loses her job in a mine, which shuts down in 2011. The Nevada town that depended on it crumbles, its zip code is binned.
“Nomadland” has clinched several Academy Award nominations, including those for Best Picture, Best Actress, and Best Director for Chloe Zhao. The first Chinese woman auteur with this recognition, Zhao had in her earlier two films “Songs My Brothers Taught Me” and “The Rider” created a romance with the American West, training her script and camera toward the magical landscape with its huge, thinly populated open places.
Naturally, such a literary hit required a star-studded movie adaptation and Hollywood duly obliged. A few tweaks were made, most notably the book’s London setting shifted across the Atlantic, but, with an ensemble that included Lisa Kudrow, Edgar Ramirez, Allison Janney, Luke Evans, Hayley Bennett, Justin Theroux and Rebecca Ferguson, and Emily Blunt in the lead, large returns were expected upon the film’s release in October 2016. However, while Blunt received plenty of praise for her performance, including a Bafta nomination, and its $170m haul was almost four times its budget, its execution left many critics cold, with descriptions ranging from “exploitative melodrama” to “shiny trash” and “a flat and suspense-free tale of pretty people in peril”.
The Girl On The Train Review: A Bumpy Ride on this train Published by GulteDesk February 27, 2021
2.5/5
Cast - Parineeti Chopra, Aditi Rao Hydari, Kriti Kulhari, Avinash Tiwary, Tota Roy Chowdhury and others
Director - Ribhu Dasgupta
Music - Sunny and Inder Bawra and Vipin Patwa
Bollywood actress Parineeti Chopra’s latest psychological suspense thriller, The Girl on the Train, skipped its theatrical release and premiered on Netflix on February 26th. The film is based on British author Paula Hawkins’ 2015 best selling novel of the same title. This is the second film adaptation of the novel, after Hollywood actress Emily Blunt’s 2016 film. Let’s see what works and what doesn’t in this desi whodunit set in London.