The lines between reality and imagination begin to blur when writer Flannery O'Connor is diagnosed with lupus.
Wildcat is directed by Ethan Hawke who previously directed Chelsea Walls (2001), The Hottest State (2006) and Blaze (2018).
Wildcat is a case where I respect the movie more than anything else, it's a film about American novelist Flannery O'Connor. While the movie is indeed a biopic at the very least the movie attempts to go about it in a different way. There's actually a few pretty bizarre moments here that somewhat worked strangely enough, mainly due to the atmosphere the movie was going for.
The performances all around are pretty good, Maya Hawke is by far the standout and it's nice to see yet another interesting role from her, even when the movie shows traits of a very generic biopic. Maya Hawke's performance makes the movie a bit more interesting to follow. Although Cooper Hoffman isn't in the movie for very long he gives a fun performance.
As far as the rest of the movie goes it's mostly fine, the structure of the movie can easily lose the viewer as it does end up being a bit of a mess when it comes to trying to explain what's O'Connor's fantasy and reality. The writing while effective in some areas definitely needed a bigger punch to be more impactful.
I really don't have much else to say about Wildcat it's a mostly fine biopic that goes for something different but doesn't quite reach it in the end.
Wildcat is available on all VOD Platforms.
5/10 C
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