![]() ![]() ![]() Her colleagues are also her distrustful captors, and the movie’s biggest problems. Gadon is a vivid onscreen presence, but we never approach the complexity of Pauline’s inner life, or her obvious trauma. Sarah Gadon plays the Hearst stand-in, called Pauline, who seems both defiant and tentative, smoking all day, spouting anti-capitalist rhetoric, yet timid. An expert at laying low, she is asked by a contact to move in with some members of the underground as their link to the outside world, getting them groceries, helping them write a book.Īrriving at a remote rented house in upstate New York, Jenny meets her charges, who have escaped the police shootout that killed the rest of their group. And she is on the run after having bombed a draft center, a crime for which her boyfriend is in prison. Miss Dolly calls her an “Oriental girl” and she repeatedly has to remind people that she was born in California. ![]() ![]() Jenny, who is Asian-American, has her own issues with society. And in just a few scenes as Miss Dolly, Ellen Burstyn creates a character capable of surprising us. Throughout the story, Chau is extremely good at capturing the tension, fear and questioning behind Jenny’s calm facade. The story truly begins with her living in a large old house working for Miss Dolly, an entitled, rich old woman. Most of the pic is a long flashback framed by unnecessary scenes of Jenny in prison, being questioned by an FBI agent. ![]()
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