Saoirse Ronan at Her Most Transcendent

[ad_1] Director Nora Fingscheidt’s Sundance drama stars Ronan as a recovering alcoholic who’s back in her childhood home in the Orkney Islands. Photo: Protagonist Pictures Saoirse Ronan gives one of her most transcendent performances in Nora Fingscheidt’s windswept drama The Outrun, playing a woman trying to rebuild her life after returning to her childhood home… Continue reading Saoirse Ronan at Her Most Transcendent

The Transcendent Society of the Snow Has Existential Bite

[ad_1] In Society of the Snow, staying alive is a horror. The action sequences in director J. A. Bayona’s adaptation of La Sociedad de Nieve, Pablo Vierci’s book about the 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in the Andes Mountains, are vivid, even lurid. The sounds of bones crunching and hot blood hissing… Continue reading The Transcendent Society of the Snow Has Existential Bite