Violet

Name: Violet
Genre: Drama
Released: October 29, 2021
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 61
Cast: Bonnie Bedelia, Dennis Boutsikaris, Erica Ash, Jim O'Heir, Justin Theroux

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Relativity Media | Release Date: October 29, 2021 | Not Rated

Starring: Bonnie Bedelia, Dennis Boutsikaris, Erica Ash, Jim O'Heir, Justin Theroux, Luke Bracey, Olivia Munn, Peter Jacobsen, Todd Stashwick, Zachary Gordon

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Available on VOD/digital beginning November 9, 2021.

Summary: Violet Calder, a 32 year-old film executive, realizes that the voice inside her head has been lying to her. Her entire life.

Director: Justine Bateman

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 92 min

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Richard Roeper

Nov 8, 2021

Thanks in large part to Munn’s elegant, authentic, grounded and moving performance, we’re rooting hard for Violet to find some inner peace. Read full review

The Film Stage John Fink

Mar 20, 2021

Demystifying the backroom deals of film financing, Bateman has crafted an authentic-looking and -feeling commentary on show business designed perhaps to make the kinds of acquisition professionals and insiders who attend festivals and film markets uncomfortable. Read full review

Siddhant Adlakha

Sep 9, 2021

Violet’s editing and texture effectively convey what the character is feeling, and while its noncommittal camera choices occasionally prevent the viewer from feeling it alongside her, Munn’s performance, and the film’s eventual narrative trajectory, are incisive enough to get around its visual shortcomings. Read full review

IndieWire Kate Erbland

Mar 20, 2021

While Bateman’s more florid touches sometimes wear, Munn is so devastatingly good at selling Violet’s internal strife that it’s easy to forgive Bateman’s other creative impulses. With a star this well-suited for the role, Bateman has already proven her salt as a keen-eyed filmmaker. Read full review

Johanna Schneller

Sep 10, 2021

Munn’s exquisitely readable face, which cycles through emotional states with delicate flickers, is Bateman’s strongest asset. Her weakest is her storytelling. Read full review

Peter Debruge

Mar 26, 2021

There’s bravery in Bateman’s willingness to explore this state of mind, to put so much of herself on the table, but she rolls credits just as things were getting interesting: when Violet blocks out the voices and finally starts listening to herself. Read full review

Sheri Linden

Mar 20, 2021

The story itself finally feels lost beneath the levels of artifice rather than heightened by it. Read full review

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