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Gothic author Flannery O'Connor, a canonical literary determine, was influenced by particular obsessions: faith, race, liberation, and life within the American South. In WildcatDirected by Ethan Hawke and starring his daughter Maya Hawke, it explores O'Connor's life and the best way she sees the world.
“Expensive God, please,” says Maya O'Connor within the function. “Except I'm writing, I can by no means escape myself.”
The newly launched trailer is a glimpse of the biopic which made its debut on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition final yr. The movie not solely examines O'Connor's tortured writing course of, but it surely additionally examines elements of her non secular origins, strained household relationships, and her lupus prognosis on the age of 24. Muted blue tones and the sound of a typewriter function the background to all of it.
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WildcatWritten by Ethan Hawke and Shelby Gaines, it additionally stars Laura Linney, Philip Ettinger, Rafael Casal and Steve Zahn. The movie is coming quickly, though dates haven’t been introduced.