The first trailer for A24′s upcoming movie Janet Planet has been released.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker makes her directorial debut with the new coming-of-age movie, which she also wrote the screenplay for.
The movie stars Julianne Nicholson, Zoe Ziegler, Elias Koteas, Will Patton, and Sophie Okonedo.
Here’s the synopsis: “In rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother, Janet. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker captures a child’s experience of time passing, and the ineffability of a daughter falling out of love with her mother, in this singularly sublime film debut.”
Keep reading to find out more…Janet Planet has been receiving rave reviews already after it premiered at the 2023 Telluride Film Festival before screening at the New York and San Francisco film festivals.
“Just as credit must be given to Baker for...
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker makes her directorial debut with the new coming-of-age movie, which she also wrote the screenplay for.
The movie stars Julianne Nicholson, Zoe Ziegler, Elias Koteas, Will Patton, and Sophie Okonedo.
Here’s the synopsis: “In rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother, Janet. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker captures a child’s experience of time passing, and the ineffability of a daughter falling out of love with her mother, in this singularly sublime film debut.”
Keep reading to find out more…Janet Planet has been receiving rave reviews already after it premiered at the 2023 Telluride Film Festival before screening at the New York and San Francisco film festivals.
“Just as credit must be given to Baker for...
- 4/5/2024
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
"I have always had this knowledge that I could make any man fall in love with me if I really tried... And I think maybe it's ruined my life." This line really cuts deep. A24 has revealed an official trailer for an indie drama titled Janet Planet, marking the feature directorial debut of playwright Annie Baker. This first premiered at the 2023 Telluride Film Festival last year, playing at the New York Film Festival (NYFF) and this year's Berlin Film Festival a few months ago. In her debut feature film, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Annie Baker captures a child’s experience of time passing and the ineffability of a daughter falling out of love with her mother as she spends more time with her. The story follows 11-year-old Lacy, who spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother, Janet. As the months pass,...
- 4/4/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Janet PlanetScreenshot: A24/YouTube
It appears we’ve reached some sort of millennial inflection point wherein all the new nostalgic coming-of-age films are set in the summer of 1991. But where Snack Shack was a rowdy, boisterous midwestern romp, the trailer for A24’s Janet Planet, premiering June 21, is a quiet...
It appears we’ve reached some sort of millennial inflection point wherein all the new nostalgic coming-of-age films are set in the summer of 1991. But where Snack Shack was a rowdy, boisterous midwestern romp, the trailer for A24’s Janet Planet, premiering June 21, is a quiet...
- 4/4/2024
- by Mary Kate Carr
- avclub.com
The bond between a mother and daughter is, for lack of a better term, always fraught.
In playwright-turned-filmmaker Annie Baker’s feature directorial debut, that relationship is pulled to its edges as “Mare of Easttown” Emmy winner Julianne Nicholson plays Janet, a mother called upon by her preteen daughter Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) to pick her up from summer camp. Lacy’s reason? She’s on the verge of a nervous breakdown. But maybe so is Janet. “Every moment in my life is hell,” Lacy tells her mother.
Baker’s “Janet Planet” follows Janet through Lacy’s eyes as the mother-daughter duo delve into a codependent balance onscreen, with Janet cycling through relationships and other relatable ups and downs. Elias Koteas, Sophie Okonedo, and Will Patton also star in the feature, which is set in 1991.
The film premiered at the 2023 Telluride Film Festival and went on to screen at the New...
In playwright-turned-filmmaker Annie Baker’s feature directorial debut, that relationship is pulled to its edges as “Mare of Easttown” Emmy winner Julianne Nicholson plays Janet, a mother called upon by her preteen daughter Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) to pick her up from summer camp. Lacy’s reason? She’s on the verge of a nervous breakdown. But maybe so is Janet. “Every moment in my life is hell,” Lacy tells her mother.
Baker’s “Janet Planet” follows Janet through Lacy’s eyes as the mother-daughter duo delve into a codependent balance onscreen, with Janet cycling through relationships and other relatable ups and downs. Elias Koteas, Sophie Okonedo, and Will Patton also star in the feature, which is set in 1991.
The film premiered at the 2023 Telluride Film Festival and went on to screen at the New...
- 4/4/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
How does a girl perceive her mother? Lucy is facing that reality in the new film “Janet Planet.” Set in the early ‘90s, this coming-of-age film highlights how complicated the relationship can be. The A24 film hails from Annie Baker, who previously wrote an episode of the Prime Video series “I Love Dick.”
The Playlist’s Gregory Ellwood noted the connection between Baker’s direction and Maria von Hausswolf’s cinematography, calling it “exquisite.” “Whether it’s a close-up of a dangling earring or Janet getting swept up in line dancing, the perspective is always intentional,” he wrote after its 2023 Telluride premiere.
Continue reading ‘Janet Planet’ Trailer: Julianne Nicholson and Zoe Ziegler Star In A24’s Acclaimed Telluride Drama at The Playlist.
The Playlist’s Gregory Ellwood noted the connection between Baker’s direction and Maria von Hausswolf’s cinematography, calling it “exquisite.” “Whether it’s a close-up of a dangling earring or Janet getting swept up in line dancing, the perspective is always intentional,” he wrote after its 2023 Telluride premiere.
Continue reading ‘Janet Planet’ Trailer: Julianne Nicholson and Zoe Ziegler Star In A24’s Acclaimed Telluride Drama at The Playlist.
- 4/4/2024
- by Valerie Thompson
- The Playlist
MacArthur Fellow Annie Baker is an acclaimed playwright and theater director, winning the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for drama for “The Flick,” among other accolades. Now, with the release of the delicate mother-daughter drama “Janet Planet,” both written and directed by Baker, the esteemed theater veteran makes her directorial film debut.
Baker began writing “Janet Planet” in the early days of the pandemic, completing it in December 2020. However, for Baker, this project was a long time in the making. “I’ve been thinking about writing this story which explores a very particular kind of love for a long time, and I even had some notes on it from like 20 years ago, sparse ones, but still, from college.”
In “Janet Planet,” 11-year-old Lacey (Zoe Ziegler) has a difficult time separating from her mother, Janet, (Julianne Nicholson) in the summer before starting middle school. The film sees Janet’s life as a single mother...
Baker began writing “Janet Planet” in the early days of the pandemic, completing it in December 2020. However, for Baker, this project was a long time in the making. “I’ve been thinking about writing this story which explores a very particular kind of love for a long time, and I even had some notes on it from like 20 years ago, sparse ones, but still, from college.”
In “Janet Planet,” 11-year-old Lacey (Zoe Ziegler) has a difficult time separating from her mother, Janet, (Julianne Nicholson) in the summer before starting middle school. The film sees Janet’s life as a single mother...
- 2/16/2024
- by Shayeza Walid
- Variety Film + TV
The Berlinale has completed the lineup for its Panorama, Generation, Forum and Forum expanded sections, with new films from Levan Akin and Andre Techine, plus the debut feature of US playwright Annie Baker.
Swedish filmmaker Akin, who scored an international hit in 2019 with And Then We Danced, will open the Panorama strand with Crossing, about two people travelling from Georgia to Istanbul in search of a young transgender woman.
Scroll down for the full list of Panorama, Generation and Forum features
Also among the 31 films in Panorama are My New Friends from French filmmaker Techine, starring Isabelle Hupert, Hafsia Herzi...
Swedish filmmaker Akin, who scored an international hit in 2019 with And Then We Danced, will open the Panorama strand with Crossing, about two people travelling from Georgia to Istanbul in search of a young transgender woman.
Scroll down for the full list of Panorama, Generation and Forum features
Also among the 31 films in Panorama are My New Friends from French filmmaker Techine, starring Isabelle Hupert, Hafsia Herzi...
- 1/17/2024
- by Ben Dalton¬Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
About halfway through playwright Annie Baker’s self-assured and pitch-perfect directorial debut Janet Planet, 11-year-old Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) rolls over in bed and turns to her mother Janet (Julianne Nicholson) with an innocent prompt. “You know what’s funny?” she asks. “Every moment of my life is hell.” At such a gentle moment, in such a casual way, she delivers a melodramatic gut-punch. You can’t help choking out a laugh.
Throughout this existential comedy, lighthearted coming-of-age drama, and sublime slice of Western Massachusetts life, Lacy has a habit of expressing herself in unintentionally funny, wounding ways to her mother. It’s a characteristic that’s baked into their codependent relationship that Lacy struggles to maintain in the months before she begins sixth grade. An outcast amongst her peers, she tests her mother’s patience and devotion, threatening to kill herself if she doesn’t help her escape summer camp.
Throughout this existential comedy, lighthearted coming-of-age drama, and sublime slice of Western Massachusetts life, Lacy has a habit of expressing herself in unintentionally funny, wounding ways to her mother. It’s a characteristic that’s baked into their codependent relationship that Lacy struggles to maintain in the months before she begins sixth grade. An outcast amongst her peers, she tests her mother’s patience and devotion, threatening to kill herself if she doesn’t help her escape summer camp.
- 10/9/2023
- by Jake Kring-Schreifels
- The Film Stage
The Pulitzer prize-winning playwright’s muted, yet lingering, first film follows Julianne Nicholson’s single mother in the 90s
The first shot of Janet Planet, like much of the Pulitzer-winning playwright Annie Baker’s debut film, hints at something ominous and grand. It’s dusk; a young girl runs down a field toward an old house, the air teeming with cricket chirps and birdsong. The long shot and soundscape are wonderfully lush and evocative, and also typical for a vast swath of the suburban to rural US. “I’m going to kill myself,” 11-year-old Lacy (a remarkable Zoe Ziegler) tells her mother on the phone, a statement that would seem horribly portentous if not for her clarification: “I’m going to kill myself if you don’t come pick me up.” From summer camp.
Childhood boredom, loneliness, homesickness, the arduously languid days of summer – these are the opening notes of Baker’s nostalgic,...
The first shot of Janet Planet, like much of the Pulitzer-winning playwright Annie Baker’s debut film, hints at something ominous and grand. It’s dusk; a young girl runs down a field toward an old house, the air teeming with cricket chirps and birdsong. The long shot and soundscape are wonderfully lush and evocative, and also typical for a vast swath of the suburban to rural US. “I’m going to kill myself,” 11-year-old Lacy (a remarkable Zoe Ziegler) tells her mother on the phone, a statement that would seem horribly portentous if not for her clarification: “I’m going to kill myself if you don’t come pick me up.” From summer camp.
Childhood boredom, loneliness, homesickness, the arduously languid days of summer – these are the opening notes of Baker’s nostalgic,...
- 10/9/2023
- by Adrian Horton
- The Guardian - Film News
Playwright Annie Baker has developed a distinctive style in which silences often speak louder than words, the words themselves mean more than what’s actually said, and routine conversations and events have the power of earth-shattering revelations. It’s an approach to drama that demands us to pay close attention to every line of dialogue and every flicker of emotion on an actor’s face, lest we miss crucial details. In some ways, that’s a deeply cinematic approach to dramaturgy, recalling the economy of Robert Bresson and Harold Pinter’s work, except that Baker’s is far more emotionally immediate.
The plot of Baker’s quiet and often moving feature directorial debut, Janet Planet, details the bond between 11-year-old Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) and her acupuncturist mother, Janet (Julianne Nicholson), in rural Western Massachusetts in the summer of 1991 just before Lacy enters the sixth grade. The closest that the film...
The plot of Baker’s quiet and often moving feature directorial debut, Janet Planet, details the bond between 11-year-old Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) and her acupuncturist mother, Janet (Julianne Nicholson), in rural Western Massachusetts in the summer of 1991 just before Lacy enters the sixth grade. The closest that the film...
- 10/8/2023
- by Kenji Fujishima
- Slant Magazine
The first thing we hear from the 11-year-old Lacy in playwright Annie Baker’s contemplative yet cold-to-the-touch film debut “Janet Planet” is that she will kill herself.
Okay, perhaps some context is necessary, as her threat isn’t nearly as dark as it sounds—in fact, it lands with a chuckle. Played with precocious seriousness by newcomer Zoe Ziegler in an observant performance, the tight-lipped and often unsmiling Lacy happens to be stuck at a cheesy summer camp she can’t stand and is begging her mom on the other end of the phone line to come and pick her up, exaggerating with her sarcastic words just how desperate she is.
Studiously bespectacled, dressed in oversized tees and sporting a nerdy mid-part, Lacy wins her case eventually, proving at once that she is still very much a mommy’s girl despite looking like an independent and amusingly know-it-all heroine—a...
Okay, perhaps some context is necessary, as her threat isn’t nearly as dark as it sounds—in fact, it lands with a chuckle. Played with precocious seriousness by newcomer Zoe Ziegler in an observant performance, the tight-lipped and often unsmiling Lacy happens to be stuck at a cheesy summer camp she can’t stand and is begging her mom on the other end of the phone line to come and pick her up, exaggerating with her sarcastic words just how desperate she is.
Studiously bespectacled, dressed in oversized tees and sporting a nerdy mid-part, Lacy wins her case eventually, proving at once that she is still very much a mommy’s girl despite looking like an independent and amusingly know-it-all heroine—a...
- 9/2/2023
- by Tomris Laffly
- The Wrap
It’s almost cosmic, the way kids start out as nothing more than a twinkle in their mother’s eye. Then they’re born into heavenly little bodies, orbiting the adults who made them like tiny moons, until such time that they overcome their parents’ gravitational pull. So it is with “Janet Planet,” one of those intensely personal portraits of childhood that we’ve come to expect — and appreciate — from A24, the indie studio behind “Moonlight” and “Lady Bird” and “Aftersun” and “Eighth Grade” (the example this one most resembles). The list goes on.
Seriously, as many as 24 different A24 movies could fit this category — and now we get playwright Annie Baker’s micro-normous take: a small but incredibly specific movie that feels every bit as attentively crafted and evocative as those earlier titles, while remaining wholly unique and distinct from them. It’s striking proof of an original sensibility.
Seriously, as many as 24 different A24 movies could fit this category — and now we get playwright Annie Baker’s micro-normous take: a small but incredibly specific movie that feels every bit as attentively crafted and evocative as those earlier titles, while remaining wholly unique and distinct from them. It’s striking proof of an original sensibility.
- 9/2/2023
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
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