Tag: Chloe Sevigny
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“Lizzie”: Gets to the Lessie Behind the Whack Job
In the real courtroom Lizzie Borden was acquitted of murdering her parents but in the court of public opinion and mythic imagination she would be forever adjudged guilty, even honored for it with the infamous 40 whack nursery rhyme. In film she would be the maddest of axe murderers with bad parenting being the grisly…
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“Lean on Pete” Races Out the Quarter Mile of Adolescent Dreams
Director Andrew Haigh doesn’t elevate the story with sappy sentiments and phony triumphs. Instead he delivers an elegiac rendering of the death of childhood.