Canadian Film Fest 2021: Our Review of ‘Woman in Car’

- Rated: NR
- Genre: Drama
- Release Date: 4/3/2021
- Directed by: Vanya Rose
- Starring: Helene Joy, Liane Balaban
Vanya Rose’s Woman in Car belongs within the subgenre of drama films where the protagonist is a woman on the verge. It’s a subgenre with a surprising crossover appeal because it has women who might kill someone. That possible homicidal lead is Helene Joy playing Anne, staring silently as other characters speak in muffled volumes around her. The cinematography captures her with a lens deserving of such a sophisticate, exercising like a bourgeois white woman in her 40s would. But she, a trophy wife, have other reasons for doing so. She is a former archer turned fiancée of a businessman …
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