Film Review – Girl (2020)

“Girl” is a Canadian production about the American deep south. The details of the setting are a little off, but so is everything in film. Writer/director Chad Faust wants to create something noir-ish, with a touch of southern gothic tossed in for taste, but he mostly ends up with a muddled take on fracture family relations with intermittent violence. “Girl” doesn’t have dramatic muscle to lift the endeavor, with Faust stuck going broad to give the picture the emphasis it needs. Instead of creating menace, the effort mostly underwhelms, dealing with hammy performances and static situations, which doesn’t inspire the depiction of mental illness and physical fatigue Faust seems to be reaching for. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com