Where the Crawdads Sing [DVD]

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D'Alessandro, Anthony (December 14, 2021). "Sony Moves 'Bullet Train' & 'Where the Crawdads Sing' To Summer". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved December 23, 2021. a b Ebiri, Bilge (July 15, 2022). "Where the Crawdads Sing Eats Itself into Nothingness". Vulture . Retrieved August 17, 2022. The best thing about both novel and movie is Kya herself [...] As the grown-up Kya, Edgar-Jones is perhaps best at conveying this young woman's wounded inner life; that speaks to the actres's talents.

The Witherspoon-produced film version, directed by Olivia Newman from a script by Lucy Alibar (Beasts of the Southern Wild), faithfully preserves that fantasy for the big screen. Which is to say, a lot of this gutless, often silly, film’s issues are the book’s, beautifully realized and thus reified by trying to make what is essentially a mud-splattered, civil rights-era fairy tale into a lifelike story. That marsh, filmed in coastal Louisiana, is indeed beautiful – cinematography by Polly Morgan captures vivid sunsets, gliding herons, a maze of waterways transparently worthy of devotion and care. So, too, is Normal People’s Edgar-Jones, who has found somewhat of a niche in supposedly off-putting characters that become, in her hands, doe-like, fragile and magnetic. With her searching, pooled brown eyes, Edgar-Jones can capably play a shy young woman of few words. She breathes life into Kya, particularly in intimate scenes, but struggles to ground the character’s (admittedly confusing) ruggedness; it never makes sense that the town’s No 1 outcast is a thin, conventionally beautiful, quiet and polite white woman. On the film's unexpected success, Witherspoon said "This movie wasn't on a lot of people's radars—and it's counterprogramming, I know—but it's a return to real filmmaking. It's a heart-and-soul experience on film with beautiful sets and beautiful costumes and wonderful actors. It's almost nostalgic for what you wanted to see in the summer." [33] Critical response [ edit ] Edgar-Jones was widely praised for her performance. Meyer, Ronald (August 17, 2022). " 'Where the Crawdads Sing' and 9 Other Movies Audiences Loved But Critics Hated". Collider . Retrieved August 25, 2022. Principal photography took place from March 30 to June 28, 2021, in New Orleans [9] and Houma, Louisiana. [10] Context and title [ edit ]

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Laura, Miller (July 15, 2022). " Where the Crawdads Sing Turns a Hit Novel Into a Swampy Twilight". Slate . Retrieved August 21, 2022.

Adapting a Phenomenon– Explore the journey of bringing the best-selling novel to life as told by the cast and filmmakers of Where The Crawdads Sing.a b Ehrlich, David (July 12, 2022). " 'Where the Crawdads Sing' Review: The Literary Sensation Becomes a Glossy Summer Popcorn Movie". IndieWire . Retrieved August 17, 2022. Anchored by a strong Daisy Edgar-Jones performance, this movie gets to the heart of Delia Owens' bookclub phenomenon, for better or worse.