Charlotte Rampling gives an excellent performance in 'Juniper,' a story of regrets, unsaid words, and failed relationships. Our review:
There are some movies you are simply not prepared for. You could watch a trailer for Juniper, get a sense of what the story is about, but that 2-minute montage could never convey the depths that this drama is willing to dive into in order to convey its message. And even though the movie isn’t attempting to reinvent the wheel – we’ve seen young person/old person bonding stories to boot by now – it finds its own way to tell its beautiful and devastating story.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY Let’s get right to the point and state the obvious: You can’t talk about Juniper without going straight to Charlotte Rampling. There’s nothing that can be said about the Oscar nominee that hasn’t already been stated, but that clearly doesn’t stop the actor from delivering a top-tier performance every single time.
The way that Juniper deals with alcoholism is also pretty different from what you’d expect from a movie. Even though Ruth’s habit of having drinks all day long ends up becoming sort of a bonding element of the lady and her grandson, Saville's script is careful enough to never romanticize addiction. Like all characters in the movie, we look the other way whenever the jar with gin lands beside Ruth, but it’s always with a dose of concern for her future.
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