Wildcat, which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and is on its way to Toronto, takes an inventive approach to O’Connor’s racism and personal crises—but it leaves out some key details too.
which had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival last week; it will debut at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11. The film has an acute awareness of both its subject’s brilliance and her status as a literary lightning rod, focusing less on her biography and more on the short stories that cemented her reputation.
The characters in these fictions find God’s grace only by being faced with acts of violence. They bounce off the page because O’Connor identifies with their prejudices, their faith, their humor. Two months before she died at age 39, O’Connor sent a letter to a frequent correspondent Maryat Lee, and signed off as one of her larger-than-life, racist characters: Mrs. Ruby Turpin., blurring the lines between O’Connor’s biography and her fiction.
The onscreen relationship between Flannery and Regina less echoes the historical record than one of O’Connor’s seminal short stories, “The Enduring Chill,” in which a young failed writer leaves New York, believing he’s about to die, and begrudgingly places himself in the care of his prejudiced mother. As that character does in that story, Flannery feels increasingly irritated in Regina’s presence.
Next, Hawke imagines Flannery’s familial revenge through fiction by staging her short story “Revelation” for the screen. Taking a break from portraying Flannery’s mother, Linney steps into the role of Ruby Turpin, a woman whose nose is prosthetically enlarged so as to appear absurd.
Later, Linney and Maya Hawke play Mrs. Chestny and her son, Julian, respectively, in another dramatized story, this one most closely reflecting the weathered bond between Flannery and Regina: “Everything That Rises Must Converge.” They’re riding the bus when a Black woman—in the same stylish hat Mrs. Chestny had bragged about wearing herself only moments earlier—boards with her seven-year-old son named Carver. From the seat in the front row, Carver looks back at mother and son playfully; Mrs.
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