Get the latest gossip
‘Eleanor The Great’ Review: June Squibb Is Quietly Powerful And Touching As A 94-Year-Old Woman Caught Up In A Lie In Scarlett Johansson’s Impressive Directorial Debut – Cannes Film Festival
A review of Eleanor The Great, the feature directorial debut of Scarlett Johansson starring June Squibb as a 94 year old caught up in a big lie
Instead Scarlett Johansson ‘s wonderful and richly textured feature directorial debut is a small but beautifully realized story of a 94-year-old woman named Eleanor Morgenstern who, at the point in life where most have just given up, instead packs her bags and moves from Florida to New York City to be closer to her daughter and grandkids. As it turns out, there is also a young student, Nina (Erin Kellyman) who is doing an article on this group for her college class and approaches Eleanor to be the highlighted survivor after hearing her (actually Bessie’s) life experience. Johansson, working with Tony Kamen’s screenplay, keeps this all very delicate and a reminder of those wonderful contained New York City-set movies about the human condition, and with the expertise of her cinematographer Helene Louvart, she really captures the city.
Or read this on Deadline