On the surface, “Janet Planet” sounds like a charming story about a single mother seen through the eyes of her 11-year-old daughter. Lacy (Zoe Ziegler), is a lone wolf — or at least she sees herself ...
Julianne Nicholson and Zoe Ziegler in "Janet Planet." In Janet Planet, silence is everything. Playwright Annie Baker's directorial debut thrives in the stretches of time between words, entire scenes ...
Julianne Nicholson and Zoe Ziegler, in JANET PLANET. Courtesy of A24 In JANET PLANET, Julianne Nicholson plays Janet, the warming, single mother “sun” around which her daughter, 11-year-old Lacy (Zoe ...
For years, Julianne Nicholson has been the other Julianne (to Moore's Julianne). But with each successive performance, including in the 2021 series "Mare of Eastown," she has established her own ...
PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Does anybody have a rocket ship they can lend me? When I started doing my research after watching Janet Planet and saw that it was written and directed by a playwright, I said, ...
Janet Planet is slow like summer should be — resting in the golden light of sunset at a cabin, with bugs and birds droning, a fan whirring in the corner. But before we can get to this idyll, the story ...
A small, keenly observed drama with a rich eye for detail and a knowing sense of its place in the world, "Janet Planet" isn't going to shake your foundation, but it may make you exhale a deep sigh of ...
“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 ...
Annie Baker’s debut feature film, ‘Janet Planet,’ is set in a world all its own — the Pioneer Valley
‘I think one of the reasons I made the movie is that I don’t know how to describe the Pioneer Valley,’ Baker says. ‘It has a really specific aesthetic.’ NORTHAMPTON — Partway through “Janet Planet,” ...
Zoe Ziegler and Julianne Nicholson in director Annie Baker's "Janet Planet." (Courtesy A24) In a bizarre quirk of timing, two movies by female playwrights making their directorial debuts open in the ...
“We never know the actual, vital contour of our own emotions—just what forms them from outside.” So wrote Rilke in the fourth of his “Duino Elegies,” part of which one character reads to another in ...
It’s backwards. The title. Janet Planet. You see, it should be Planet Janet, since people come into single mother Janet’s orbit. Or maybe it’s that she orbits them, briefly caught up in their ...
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