**** out of ****
Krisha is a movie with no famous faces, glamour or a feel-good tone – there is
just about nothing going for it, aside from being a great movie. This festival
favorite is about an aging mess of a woman struggling with sobriety in the
upscale home of her sister on Thanksgiving. The movie manages to balance
skillful cinematic techniques with a brutally realistic setting in the same way
“Requiem for a Dream” did. The family gathering portrays suburban normalcy as a
world of inescapable anxiety, through brilliant sound mixing and editing.
The film is
so good at being true to itself that it has every reason to struggle in finding
a wide audience, even though it will most likely engage anyone who bothers
seeing it.
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