There’s a distracting practice in American cinema of casting actors who are already well into their 20s to play teens, although “Holler” contains one of the few examples in recent memory where an age difference of nearly a decade, while noticeable, works to the film’s advantage. Ruth, the resourceful Ohio high school student at the heart of writer-director Nicole Riegel’s open-wound debut, has been forced to grow up too soon. Life isn’t fair, and it shows on the face of British actor Jessica Barden (“The Lobster”), whose remarkable performance illuminates this unvarnished dive into tough, small-town survival … and escape.
A resilient spark plug in a box of rusted parts, Ruth represents a huge swath of the American public rarely seen on-screen: young people without iPhones and Instagram accounts, just struggling to get by. Her mother (Pamela Adlon) got hooked on painkillers after injuring her hand and...
A resilient spark plug in a box of rusted parts, Ruth represents a huge swath of the American public rarely seen on-screen: young people without iPhones and Instagram accounts, just struggling to get by. Her mother (Pamela Adlon) got hooked on painkillers after injuring her hand and...
- 9/9/2020
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
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