A recreation of a true story - that initially uses a lot of actual newsreel footage of swimmer Diana Nyad - and her failed attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida in her twenties. Now sixty, Nyad (Annette Bening) announces to her best friend Bonnie (Jodie Foster) that she's going to attempt it again, which she sets out to do with the help of skippers Rhys Ifans and Karly Rothenberg. Very pleased to hear both leads are Oscar nominated
Editor Christopher Tellefsen has a lot to deal with in combining the newsreel stuff, flashbacks and the complexities of the swimming scenes. (An apprentice first to Ralph Rosenbloom, then Thelma Schoonmaker, he's responsible for such films as Smoke, Changing Lanes, Capote, Moneyball, Joy and A Quiet Place.) Sound design interesting and good also.
From the end footage you can see that Bonnie was quite a powerful character too. I can see why they wrote it the way they did - two strong forces might have been too much - but it would have been intriguing had they related it like that. Julia Cox is the screenwriter.
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