Julianne Nicholson stars as a mother with boundary problems raising a precocious, strong-minded 11-year old daughter in playwright Annie Baker's A24 release.
“Janet Planet,” the stunning debut film by Annie Baker, one of the most marvelously inventive playwrights of her generation, might strike some as exceptionally quiet. Dialogue is used sparingly, not to drive the narrative but to give it texture. Listen closely, however, and you’ll hear a concerto of sound . Set in the rustic wilds of western Massachusetts, familiar territory for Baker who grew up in Amherst, “Janet Planet” is alive with the rustling trees and cricket orchestras of country life.
Alone in her room with her array of makeshift miniature dolls, she is led by the caprice of her imagination. Progress doesn’t occur by leaps and bounds, but there are glimmers of movement on Lacy's inner growth chart. As a dramatist, Baker wants the audience to become aware of its own habits of attention and inattention. The unhurried pacing of her work can be challenging onstage. But in a movie, where such loitering might be even less welcome, the effect is curiously hypnotic.
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