Adelaide Clemens – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

THE SWEARING JAR (TIFF 2022) – Review by Ulkar Alakbarova

September 9, 2022September 9, 2022 Ulkar Alakbarova Adelaide Clemens, Kate Hewlett, Kathleen Turner, Lindsay MacKay, Patrick J. Adams, The Swearing Jar, tiff 2020, toronto international film festival

The Swearing Jar is a very compelling love story about a woman who is indeed broken inside. Through the beautiful songs and lyrics, more or less, we come to know what is really happening. But it’s the commanding Lindsay MacKay direction that brings an important aspect of Carey and Simon’s marriage to life and provides an exquisite explanation as to why Carey does what she does. She does look guilty. Because she does not want to let the other man into her life. But whatever we learn soon leaves her no option. But why complicate it if it’s an easy step? And that’s why The Swearing Jar is so good – it slowly builds up the narrative and delivers it with a bang, but through humor, gentleness and charisma.

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I’LL FIND YOU – Review by Lois Alter Mark

February 18, 2022February 19, 2022 Lois Alter Mark Adelaide Clemens, I’ll Find You, Leo Suter, Martha Coolidge, Stellan Skarsgård

Martha Coolidge may not be the first director you’d think of to helm a tear-jerking Holocaust love story but she has created a small gem with I’ll Find You, a beautiful new film inspired by stories of Polish musicians from the 1930s and 1940s. It feels like you’re watching a movie that was actually filmed back in the ‘30s/’40s rather than a modern movie about that time period. There’s something about the cinematography and the whole style that is so authentic, it’s like you’re watching a beloved old classic. One day, it just might be.