Juniper

Name: Juniper
Genre: Drama
Released: February 24, 2023
Duration: 94 min
Rating: 68
Cast: Alexander Sharman, Cameron Carter-Chan, Carlos Muller, Charlotte Rampling, Edith Poor

2023

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Greenwich Entertainment | Release Date: February 24, 2023 | Not Rated

Starring: Alexander Sharman, Cameron Carter-Chan, Carlos Muller, Charlotte Rampling, Edith Poor, George Ferrier, Marton Csokas, Tane Rolfe

Summary: Ruth (Charlotte Rampling) is a worldly former war correspondent now bored in retirement with a drinking problem and a newly fractured leg. Sam (George Ferrier) is her unruly grandson, recently kicked out of boarding school and grieving the death of his mother. When the two are brought together under the same roof, they form an unexpected bond.

Director: Matthew Saville

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 94 min

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Collider Erick Massoto

Feb 24, 2023

The movie is one of those films that beautifully encapsulates life experiences, but breaks your heart in a way that you don’t immediately want to revisit it. Read full review

Rex Reed

Feb 27, 2023

I prefer to think of Juniper as chamber music—muted, soft, with a certain ache that lingers. Read full review

John Kirk

Feb 21, 2023

In the end, it’s a story about family coming together in the last moments of a loved one’s life and facing death with not only dignity but with honesty as well. A touching story. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Peter Sobczynski

Feb 24, 2023

While Juniper as a whole is not great, it has enough wit and intelligence to be better than it sounds. Most of all, it has Rampling, as captivating as ever; she proves once again that she can single-handedly take somewhat dubious material and make it eminently watchable. Read full review

Beatrice Loayza

Feb 23, 2023

Predictably, their relationship softens up, but the film nevertheless maintains some of its prickly charm, in no small part because of the feisty Rampling, whose ice-queen persona here straddles bone-dry humor and withering tragedy. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Feb 21, 2023

Actor turned writer-director Matthew J. Saville’s debut feature makes for a dry, unemotional blend of dark comedy and co-dependency, scenic but desultory, even when Rampling is at her best. Read full review

Gary Goldstein

Feb 23, 2023

Saville too often skims the surfaces of his characters, substituting traumatic concepts and plot devices for narrative logic and truly authentic, compelling emotion. Read full review

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Brent_Marchant

Apr 5, 2023

Individuals seeking to sort out their personal challenges sometimes need to work together to achieve meaningful results. What’s more, strange as it may seem, these situations often call for the formation of unlikely pairings to attain desired outcomes. Such is the case in writer-directorIndividuals seeking to sort out their personal challenges sometimes need to work together to achieve meaningful results. What’s more, strange as it may seem, these situations often call for the formation of unlikely pairings to attain desired outcomes. Such is the case in writer-director Matthew J. Saville’s debut feature about the unusual and stormy but beneficial relationship between a troubled teen (George Ferrier) mourning the loss of his mother and his prickly, salty-tongued English grandmother (Charlotte Rampling), a retired, independently minded war correspondent with a drinking problem who’s convalescing from a severely broken leg at the family’s remote New Zealand farm. What begins as a reluctant, seriously strained connection between two nonconformists gradually evolves into a knowing bond between a pair of mavericks who recognize, celebrate and act upon their unconventional impulses, acts that allow them to fulfill their potential as strong-willed individuals who aren’t timid about fully and freely being themselves. In many ways, this is not the kind of association that one would expect to develop under circumstances like these, a development that gives this story a fresh take on intergenerational relations. But that’s also why the film disappoints somewhat by ultimately falling back on a somewhat predictable narrative line and not allowing its innate strength to become as fully fleshed out as it could have been, particularly where the revelation of motivations is concerned. Nevertheless, those shortcomings are made up for by the picture’s gorgeous cinematography of rural New Zealand, as well as the excellent break-out performance of Ferrier and the positively outstanding portrayal of Rampling, who handily turns in some of the best work of her career here. “Juniper” may not live up to everything it could have been, but it has a lot going for it that’s well worthwhile, especially in its ability to move audience members as the story plays out. Enjoy what makes this moving comedy-drama work, but be sure to keep those hankies handy.… Expand

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