Review of Where the Crawdads Sing (2022) by Clarisse Loughrey for The Independent — 22 Jul 2022
Does the fact the film largely ignores the book’s treatise on nature and virtue absolve it of all connections to Owens’s real-life controversies? It certainly doesn’t, on an artistic level, improve what’s already contained on the page.
Newman’s vision of rural South Carolina is scrubbed so clean you might as well call it #swampcore – the Spanish moss looks bright and pristine, the flower petals on the water almost consciously arranged.
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This review of Where the Crawdads Sing (2022) was written by Clarisse Loughrey and published by The Independent on 22 Jul 2022.
Where the Crawdads Sing has generally received positive reviews.
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