Through conversations with her family and her parents’ friends and fellow actors, she learns how they met, how different they really were and how she came so close to not existing at all (pregnant at age 42, Dianne was worried about complications and was on her way to the abortion clinic when she changed her mind), as well as one revelation that will truly change her life. While this makes it sound like a big-screen version of an episode of the BBC series
Who Do You Think You Are,
Stories We Tell has an intimacy and endearingly shoddy production values the Beeb would never allow. Sound booms are deliberately left in shot, Polley records conversations on an 8mm camera before and in-between the more formal set-ups and she and her brothers and sisters regularly take the mickey out of one another (apparently the young Sarah thought her mother was Lucielle Ball), leavening what could have been a maudlin, navel-gazing project.
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But this was not always the case, and it was not the case as recently as 10 years ago.
10 years ago, the idea of a purely slobbish superhero, a superhero who was more interested in smoking weed and just hanging out, not only was acceptable, it in fact served as the entire premise and selling point of a particular superhero movie. This week, we look back at
The Green Hornet, released on Jan. 14, 2011, almost exactly one decade ago. It seems to exist in an entirely different universe than the one we live in whether it s a better or worse one may be up to your own personal interpretation.
Women Talking, based on the bestselling novel by Miriam Toews and adapted for the screen by Polley herself. Published in 2018,
Women Talking follows a group of women at a Mennonite colony in Bolivia as they come to the devastating realization that they’ve been systematically sexually assaulted by men in their community, and set out to protect themselves and their daughters from further trauma. McDormand will, presumably, absolutely end some of these men.
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Nomadland, the new drama from Chloe Zhao, director of
The Rider and Marvel’s upcoming epic
The Eternals. Zhao’s latest effort is currently scheduled for release on February 19, 2021. As for Polley, to call