Ethan Hawke directs his daughter Maya as mid-century American writer Flannery O'Connor in 'Wildcat,' a disappointing outing.
Withgets to channel that literary phase into a big-screen story that is half Flannery O'Connor biopic, half adaptation of O'Connor's short stories. Directed by Maya's father, Ethan Hawke, who co-wrote the film with Shelby Gaines, Maya plays both the iconic Southern writer and various iterations of O'Connor's characters.follows O'Connor, beginning with her return home to Georgia at the age of 24 and her subsequent lupus diagnosis.
The movie would be better if it had decisively opted for one approach — biopic or short story anthology. The choice to do both induces whiplash, making it challenging to connect to any of the storylines because we spend so little time in each sequence before jumping to the next . It's a disservice to O'Connor's work as well, given that her stories are so rich a single one of them could fill the running time of a feature film on its own merits.
There's beautiful imagery at play here throughout, and admiration for O'Connor's struggle to stay true to herself and the strangeness of her work seeps from the movie in every frame. Despite its shortcomings,possesses a palpable love for the subject matter. But passion alone does not a good film make, and everything that rises to the forefront of this film does not, at all, converge.
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