Limited release June 16, 2017
Viewed date at Carlisle Theater (downtown) onFirday, July 21, 2017
IMBd: 7.7/10
IMBd: 7.7/10
RT Critic: 90 Audience: 93
Critic's Consensus:
Critic's Consensus:
Cag: 5.5.Loved it
Directed by Aisling Walsh
Sony Pictures Classics
Sally Hawkins, Ethan Hawke
My comments: About halfway through the movie I realized that it had to be a biopic, based on a true story. Had to be. Maudie Lewis was Canada's Grandma Moses, born in 1903, died in 1970. Sally Hawkins was amazing as a arthritically crippled painter, aging, becoming more bent and stooped while looking for the good in her curmudgeonly husband, played by Ethan Hawke. He was pretty decent, too (but MUCH better looking than the real guy probably was), but Sally Hawkins stole the show completely. Their actual life was lived in Nova Scotia, but the movie was filmed in Newfoundland and was just gorgeous. The credits at the end of the film were interspersed with some of Maud Lewis's real paintings. Superb movie, easily a five.
RT/ IMDb Summary: 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.
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