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Director Rose Glass on Saint Maud: “It’s deeply silly”
The writer/director explains why she doesn t find her first feature as intense as everyone else does By Norman Wilner
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Rose Glass (left), Jennifer Ehle (centre) and Morfydd Clark (right) on the set of Saint Maud.
It’s been a year and a half since Saint Maud premiered at TIFF 2019, but it hasn’t lost a step.
Rose Glass’s unsettling first feature – about a devout young nurse determined to save the soul of her latest palliative patient – walks a razor wire between incisive character study and full-on psychological horror. Its power is carried in the ferocious performances of Morfydd Clark and Jennifer Ehle, and in its depiction of religious ecstasy as both wonderful and terrifying for the person experiencing it.
What’s new to VOD and streaming this weekend
Including reviews of Judas And The Black Messiah, Cowboys, The Map Of Tiny Perfect Things and Saint Maud By Norman Wilner
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OW critics pick what’s new to streaming and VOD for the weekend of February 12. Plus: Everything new to VOD and streaming platforms.
Judas And The Black Messiah
(Shaka- King)
In less skilful hands, Judas And The Black Messiah could play like hollow Oscar bait, a tragedy of Black lives manipulated by cynical white authority in a less enlightened time. Instead, director/co-writer King’s powerhouse drama about the complicity of FBI informant William O’Neal in the 1969 murder of Black Panthers community organizer Fred Hampton keeps subtly drawing parallels to the contemporary Black Lives Matter movement, showing us how little has changed in the ensuing half-century. The film has a nervous, contemporary feel, every scene carrying an immediacy that threatens to punch through the period setting. And t
Also: Stories of extreme religious devotion, and a father-and-son escape run.
It’s Black History Month and this week we’ve got a new film that’s sure to be a classic. It’s the first one on my list today. And for Chinese New Year, you’ve got two new choices:
Jiang Zyia, which I review today, and Skyfire, which I wrote about last week and arrives on VOD today.
Also note these two events .
The Rendez-vous French Film Festival is on through the weekend with films from France and Quebec and (recommended to me) a toe-tapping film about Acadian music. Check for more here.
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1. Judas and the Black Messiah
Shaka King s drama tells the story of Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya), the chairman of the Black Panther Party Illinois chapter who was killed in a 1969 police raid, and William O Neal (Lakeith Stanfield), a FBI informant who infiltrated the party. The movie premiered earlier this month at Sundance Film Festival and has earned strong reviews and awards attention, particularly Kaluuya, who scored a Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe nomination and is expected to appear in the same category at the Oscars.
Where to watch: Wide release in theaters and HBO Max on Friday
2. Minari
Inspired by writer-director Lee Isaac Chung s own upbringing, this film follows a Korean American family who moves to rural Arkansas, with Steven Yeun playing the determined patriarch. A smart, sensitive film about immigrants and the American dream, Minari won both the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at last year s Sundance and is one of this