“I
get lonely. I’m lonelier in my real life than out here.”
-Cheryl
Strayed, Wild
In the film Wild, Reese Witherspoon stars as
Cheryl Strayed, the real-life inspiration for the film and writer of the
original memoir. The film is directed by Jean-Marc Valée and tells the story of
Strayed as she performs a 1,100 mile solo hike after a traumatic moment in her
life.
Tina Jordan, Entertainment Weekly
“Good adaptations always add another dimension to a
beloved book, or make you see something you'd missed while you were reading. In
this case, it's a fuller sense of Strayed herself, thanks to the way Valée
manages to convey her howling, bottomless-seeming grief.”
Mark Jenkins, NPR
“As Cheryl's upbeat and ‘unsophisticated’ mom,
Bobbi, Laura Dern is the only supporting player who matters. Bobbi is Cheryl's
true soul mate, and only becomes more so as a late-blooming student of feminism
and women's literature.”
Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street
Journal
“Reese Witherspoon is the angry, wounded soul of Wild.
She commands the screen throughout her heroine’s 1,100-mile journey of
self-discovery and self-repair, on foot and mostly alone, from the Mojave
desert to Washington State along the Pacific Crest Trail. It’s a sensational
performance, by far the best one of her career.”
A.O. Scott, The New York Times
“The structure of Wild is as complicated as its
themes. The ‘action’ on the trail — walking, thinking, pitching the tent at
night and packing it up in the morning — is punctuated by looping reminiscences
of the life that preceded it. What is most audacious about the film, directed
by Jean-Marc Vallée (Dallas Buyers Club) from a screenplay by Nick
Hornby, is how closely it follows and how fully it respects Ms. Strayed’s
free-associative, memory-driven narrative.”
Wild premiered
at Aksarben Cinema on Friday, December 19. For more information about Showtimes
and Tickets check out our website! See
you at Aksarben Cinema!
