I only even heard of this, tucked away as it is on Disney+, because it's another fine piece of work from Úna Ní Dhonghaíle. But the true story of Trudy Ederle's fights against illness, society, her 'trainer', her family, the media, sexism etc etc. and her triumph at not only being the first woman to swim the channel but to have done it two hours faster than her closest male counterpart is rich and wonderful. Jeff Nathanson tells the tale, basing it on the non-fiction account by Glenn Stout. He wrote Catch Me If You Can and worked with Rønning on Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge in 2017.
Daisy Ridley I remembered correctly has been in some Star Wars films, also Mr Selfridge, and Branagh's Murder on the Orient Express. She and her swimming doubles are fine, and there's good support from Kim Bodnia and Jeanette Hain as her parents and Tilda Cobham-Hervey her sister; with Stephen Graham a welcome presence in the film's final section. Plus Chris Ecclestone, Glenn Fleshler (promoter), Sian Clifford (trainer), Alexander Karim (French contestant). The French Contestant sounds like a Wes Anderson film.
Music by Amelia Warner, photographed by Oscar Faura (and underwater by Peter Zuccarini), production designer Nora Takacs Ekberg.
Hurray!
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| Van Gogh, we were both thinking |
Why though isn't it The Young Woman and the Sea? Or - Young Woman and Sea?
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