"Where The Crawdads Sing" (2022) Directed by Olivia Newman #reading #readalong

Occasionally, even a cynical yet golden hearted misanthrope such as your humble narrator will be persuaded by the power of advertising, promotional movie posters and if I’m truly honest, an intriguing and unique film title. For months now, my local cinema has displayed two film posters prominently and seemingly constantly. The first, Men (directed by Alex Garland) is highly, highly recommended and a spoiler free review can be found within my archives here as, well, I’d been tempted by the holy grail of title, film poster and director, as Garland is fast becoming the go to director for off kilter futuristic, dystopian horror. Obviously Where The Crawdads Sing merited a casting eye on its title alone, there are better and more intriguing promotional posters than I could find for the headline of this article and without any trailers or reviews (big fan of David Strathairn so that became a big plus), I’d been suckered again and, like Men, I’m rather pleased to be such an easy sell sometimes!

Directed by Olivia Newman in only her second full length cinematic offering and based on the phenomenally successful book of the same name, Where The Crawdads Sing is many things: a courtroom drama of a bird that cannot be caged, a free spirit in a mean spirited world, the ultimate outsider in a supposedly inclusive society where bullies and racists prosper. It’s melancholic, reflective, triumphant, rustic, natural, earthy and whilst it doesn’t entirely all hang together and the ending seemed rushed, I highly recommend this to you as there’s a really genuine feel to a film that’s brilliantly wrapped together by the director (huge praise for Polly Morgan’s cinematography too) and seamlessly blended with some stellar acting portrayals.

The above two paragraphs are taken from my spoiler free review of "Where The Crawdads Sing" I originally penned and published to my Medium blog site on 16th September 2022 and which can be read in full and for free via my Substack blog site linked immediately below:

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