The article provides insights into multiple film reviews including adaptations and original stories that explore deep themes of humanity, history, and personal struggle. The adaptation of Colson Whitehead's novel presents a poignant tale of friendship faced with racism in a reform school. Jesse Eisenberg's film tackles post-Holocaust themes through a darkly comedic lens, ensuring emotional depth within the laughter. Meanwhile, 'The Girl With the Needle' delves into the dismal treatment of women post-war. Lastly, 'Maria' shines a light on the complexities of stardom and the fears of decline, maintaining magnetic performances throughout.
There are wonderful moments of humanity and hope; I don't usually respond to hug moments in drama: and yet the (soon to be classic) scene here in which a woman has to hug her grandson's friend in the absence of the grandson himself is overwhelming.
This is an effortlessly witty, fluent and astringent comedy with a very serious overcurrent. It is a road movie which is partly about the Holocaust and about America's third-generation attempt at coming to terms with it.
It is about a world in which women's lives are disposable and in which the authorities are disapproving of and disgusted by their suffering.
Maria is the most persuasive and seductive of Larrain's trilogy of great women at bay, after Jackie about Jackie Kennedy, and Spencer about Princess Diana.
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