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Janet Planet Reviews
In its moments of humor – and those little moments of shock – “Janet Planet” really finds its footing, particularly within Ziegler’s stellar performance.
The intimacy of this experience will feel reminiscent of a summer that didn’t entirely go to waste, but isn’t something that could be quite explained vividly in the first day of the school year’s round of summer vacation summaries.
The film has enough empathy to go round – for a mother overwhelmed by a child’s bottomless need, and a child’s agony over the changing rules of their bond.
This offbeat film is slow and introspective, but it beautifully captures a deep dive into human dynamics and the very real pains of growing up.
There are almost no emotional highs and lows in this movie. The camera seldom moves, and there are a lot of static camera shots of scenes where nothing much is happening. It isn't exactly a boring movie, but it feels emotionally muffled.
Janet Planet is for the weirdos who found more solace in art than they did with other people when they were young. For the adventures taken and missed, all in the name of growing up.
Baker handles everything with great tenderness, affection and attention to detail in which each phase gains unexpected dimensions and meanings. [Full review in Spanish]
Baker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, is impressive in this debut. The movie doesn’t feel like “filmed theater” — it’s patient, quiet, observant cinema.
Coming-of-age drama focusing on a sad 11-year-old girl coping with her relationship with her mother.
The playwright Annie Baker shows a deft cinematic touch in her largely autobiographical directing debut.
A tender yet subversive memory play set in western Massachusetts during the summer of 1991, about a dour little girl.
Baker gets the haziness and dream-like pre-adolescence right. With a blink of an eye, it will be gone. But for this brief time, mom and daughter relationship is precious, like a planet and its moon.
[Annie Baker] is an expert in transmitting lots of emotion with very little action, and Janet Planet is no different, using micro-gestures and passing expressions to tell her story.
Janet has bad taste in boyfriends, but Baker has excellent taste in character actors.
Great acting is overshadowed by a tediously slow, thin story in this reflective drama that's not for the impatient.
Janet Planet is a rare gem, so earnest in its approach that it resonates with a poignant, almost painful, honesty.
Nostalgic but never naff, Janet Planet fills the screen with warmth and compassion for its charming, flawed and very human characters.
... The film falls victim to the mimetic fallacy as Baker makes us privy to the tedium of Janet and Lacy’s lives without unlocking anything particularly interesting or profound about either of them.
Janet Planet plays a little like a memory piece from an unknown future – the assembled past life of an adult who, as a child, grasped only a bare majority of the tensions unfolding about her. A lovely, flawed idyll.
moves casually to a conclusion that most watching will find some truth in.