Maudie
Director: Aisling Walsh
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Sally Hawkins
Time: 115 min
Country: Canada
Year: 2017
Language: English
Maudie, based on a true story, is an unlikely romance in which the reclusive Everett Lewis (Ethan Hawke) hires a fragile yet determined woman named Maudie (Sally Hawkins) to be his housekeeper. Maudie, bright-eyed but hunched with crippled hands, yearns to be independent, to live away from her protective family and she also yearns, passionately, to create art. Unexpectedly, Everett finds himself falling in love. Maudie charts Everett’s efforts to protect himself from being hurt, Maudie’s deep and abiding love for this difficult man and her surprising rise to fame as a folk painter. The first two Oscar-
worthy performances of the coming season belong to Sally Hawkins and Ethan Hawke.
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