If you want to see what great acting is, watch Alfre Woodard deliver a master class in Clemency. In this shattering second feature from writer-director Chinonye Chukwu (alaskaLand) — which earlier this year made her the first black woman to win the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance — Woodard plays Bernadine Williams, an emotionally restrained prison warden who is about to oversee her twelfth execution by lethal injection. The last one, as Chukwu shows us, damn near wrecked her.
The film opens with the gut-wrenching sight of state-sanctioned murder. The paramedic can’t find a vein.
The film opens with the gut-wrenching sight of state-sanctioned murder. The paramedic can’t find a vein.
- 12/27/2019
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
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