This week, pop culture critic Richard Crouse reviews new movies: 'Where the Crawdads Sing,' 'Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris' and 'Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song.'
This image released by Columbia Pictures shows Daisy Edgar-Jones, left, and Taylor John Smith in a scene from "Where the Crawdads Sing." This image released by Sony Pictures shows Taylor John Smith, left, and Daisy Edgar-Jones in a scene from"Where the Crawdads Sing."
When her head is turned by two young men from town, the kindly Tate and chauvinistic football star Chase , she enters an unfamiliar world. Regarded with suspicion, laughed at and harassed, her life takes a dire turn when Chase turns up dead. Charged with murder and facing the death penalty, Kya must draw on all her experience to endure.
Without a galvanizing lead character, the heart and soul of “Where the Crawdads Sing” is lost, leaving behind warmed over intrigue and melodrama.This image released by Focus Features shows Lesley Manville sin a scene from"Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris." Through a series of unlikely happenstances, Mrs. Harris raises enough money to get to the City of Lights, pay cash for the dress and fulfil her dream, but how will she, as the snobby Dior house manager Claudine Colbert asks, “Give the dress the life it deserves?"
When Sartre said, “Life begins on the other side of despair,” he may have been talking about Mrs. Harris’s rebirth after she learned Eddie wasn’t coming back to her. Sartre’s observation, “We are our choices,” applies to the title character’s indomitable spirit and her decision to find the beauty in her world, no matter how frivolous.
The new documentary expands beyond the seven years of Cohen’s endless scribbling of lyrics, to essay what he calls, “My curious career and marginal presence on the edges of the music scene.”
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