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- 2021
- R
- Relativity Media
- 1 h 32 m
- 2021
- R
- Relativity Media
- 1 h 32 m
Summary Violet Calder, a 32 year-old film executive, realizes that the voice inside her head has been lying to her. Her entire life.
Directed By: Justine Bateman
Written By: Justine Bateman
- 2021
- R
- Relativity Media
- 1 h 32 m
- 2021
- R
- Relativity Media
- 1 h 32 m
Violet
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Summary Violet Calder, a 32 year-old film executive, realizes that the voice inside her head has been lying to her. Her entire life.
Directed By: Justine Bateman
Written By: Justine Bateman
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
61
62% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
38% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
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Thanks in large part to Munn’s elegant, authentic, grounded and moving performance, we’re rooting hard for Violet to find some inner peace.
Demystifying the backroom deals of film financing, Bateman has crafted an authentic-looking and -feeling commentary on show business designed perhaps to make the kinds of acquisition professionals and insiders who attend festivals and film markets uncomfortable.
Because Munn wisely underplays, she’s able to creep across the high-wire Bateman has stretched out, in which Violet perpetually balances deadpan external calm with overwhelming internal detonation.
While Bateman’s more florid touches sometimes wear, Munn is so devastatingly good at selling Violet’s internal strife that it’s easy to forgive Bateman’s other creative impulses. With a star this well-suited for the role, Bateman has already proven her salt as a keen-eyed filmmaker.
There’s bravery in Bateman’s willingness to explore this state of mind, to put so much of herself on the table, but she rolls credits just as things were getting interesting: when Violet blocks out the voices and finally starts listening to herself.
Crowding the screen with jarring sounds and disturbing visuals, Bateman experiments with so many cinematic frills and fancies that Munn’s touching work is too often obscured.
The story itself finally feels lost beneath the levels of artifice rather than heightened by it.
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Production Company
SECTION 5
Release Date Oct 29, 2021
Duration 1 h 32 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline What would you do if you weren't afraid?
Website
https://violetfilm.tumblr.com/
Awards
The Cadet Film Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Casting Society of America, USA
• 1 Nomination
