Wildcat

Name: Wildcat
Genre: Biography, Drama
Released: May 3, 2024
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 55
Cast: Christine Dye, Cooper Hoffman, Cory Burdette, Erin Eva Butcher, Jeffery Croft II

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Oscilloscope Laboratories | Release Date: May 3, 2024 | Not Rated

Starring: Christine Dye, Cooper Hoffman, Cory Burdette, Erin Eva Butcher, Jeffery Croft II, John E. Brownlee, Laketa Caston, Laura Linney, Philip Ettinger, Rafael Casal, Wilson Conkwright

Summary: Wildcat invites the audience to weave in and out of celebrated Southern Gothic writer Flannery O’Connor's mind as she ponders the great questions of her writing: Can scandalous art still serve God? Does suffering precede all greatness? Can illness be a blessing? In 1950, Flannery (Maya Hawke) visits her mother Regina (Laura Linney) inWildcat invites the audience to weave in and out of celebrated Southern Gothic writer Flannery O’Connor's mind as she ponders the great questions of her writing: Can scandalous art still serve God? Does suffering precede all greatness? Can illness be a blessing? In 1950, Flannery (Maya Hawke) visits her mother Regina (Laura Linney) in Georgia when she is diagnosed with lupus at twenty-four years old. Struggling with the same disease that took her father’s life when she was a child and desperate to make her mark as a great writer, this crisis pitches her imagination into a feverish exploration of belief. As she dives deeper into her craft, the lines between reality, imagination, and faith begin to blur, allowing Flannery to ultimately come to peace with her situation and heal a strained relationship with her mother.… Expand

Director: Ethan Hawke

Genre(s): Biography, Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 103 min

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Robert Abele

May 3, 2024

It’s a soulful, pointed and unconventional grappling with the mysteries of the deeply Catholic, norm-shattering Georgia native’s life and work. Read full review

Richard Roeper

May 15, 2024

Wildcat is an inventive and haunting mood piece with a number of memorable scenes. Read full review

Kimberley Jones

May 30, 2024

For neophytes, there’s still much to enjoy – cinematographer Steve Cosen’s painterly framing, exuberant scenery chewing (Linney makes a meal out of one vignette’s rotted teeth) – but the thematic resonance between story and storyteller gets a little lost when you’re only working off the reenactments’ CliffsNotes. Read full review

Matt Maytum

Sep 13, 2023

Ultimately, though, the combination of handsome visuals and assemblage of sketchy moments leave it feeling more like a museum piece, offering impressions over a gratifying narrative experience. Read full review

IndieWire Siddhant Adlakha

Sep 14, 2023

Wildcat is too tame in its portrayal of suffering to let its Catholic undertones sing or take powerful cinematic form, resulting in a work where paradoxes are half-baked dilemmas that seem too conveniently solved, and life itself is something that happens far off-screen. Read full review

Peter Debruge

Oct 3, 2023

It’s emotionally exhausting, but audiences come away with a sense of her legacy, as well as an appreciation for the adversity she faced (and, to a lesser degree, a sense of the criticism that has been leveled against her). Read full review

The Film Stage Ethan Vestby

Sep 15, 2023

One hopes Wildcat can disappear into thin air so that it doesn’t have to weigh on Hawke’s legacy. Read full review

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