{"id":3198,"date":"2018-04-19T16:27:42","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T16:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2018\/04\/19\/never-steady-never-still-a-beautiful-wintry-heartfelt-film\/"},"modified":"2018-04-19T16:27:42","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T16:27:42","slug":"never-steady-never-still-a-beautiful-wintry-heartfelt-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2018\/04\/19\/never-steady-never-still-a-beautiful-wintry-heartfelt-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Steady, Never Still: A beautiful, wintry, heartfelt film"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tara Brady\/ The Irish Times<\/em><\/p>\n

4 Stars<\/p>\n

Review: Poignancy and visual poetry mark director Hepburn as major new talent<\/p>\n

The ever-impressive\u00a0Shirley Henderson\u00a0gives a career-best performance in Kathleen Hepburn\u2019s remarkably sure-footed directorial debut. Judy (Henderson), a woman living in far-flung British Columbia, is struggling with debilitating tremors in the later stages of Parkinson\u2019s. Every button, every step, is a challenge.<\/p>\n

Her family situation is as precarious as her health. Her carer husband (Campbell) dies suddenly. Her rudderless son, Jamie (Pellerin), is struggling with his own sexuality, and is ill-suited to toiling in the oilfields, where he is relentlessly bullied.<\/p>\n

Expanded from an award-winning short Hepburn completed in 2015,\u00a0Never Steady, Never Still<\/em>\u00a0arrives with major awards from the Vancouver International Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, and the Dublin International Film Festival.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a beautiful, wintry, heartfelt film, for which Hepburn has drawn from her mother\u2019s experiences with Parkinson\u2019s. You can feel the autobiography in a gorgeously naturalistic game of lakeside cribbage and in Henderson\u2019s extraordinary, detailed turn.<\/p>\n

Emotional pain<\/h4>\n

The Vancouver-based film-maker doesn\u2019t shy away from emotional pain. We open with Henderson\u2019s fragile voiceover: \u201cDeath is a gift from God, just as life is,\u201d and an anecdote about a stillborn child, and close with further cause for grieving.<\/p>\n

Against this, life goes on. There are therapy sessions and neighbours and a lovely, heavily pregnant teenager (the wonderful Mary Galloway) who is a supermarket cashier and a source of comfort.<\/p>\n

Cinematographer\u00a0Norman Li\u00a0makes terrific use of 35mm stock, frozen horizons and natural light on water. Ben Fox\u2019s minimal electric score takes cues from the unspoiled landscape.<\/p>\n

Like the remote and frequently challenging terrain,\u00a0Never Steady, Never Still<\/em>\u00a0has a sublime, hypnotic gravitas. The film\u2019s poignancy and visual poetry mark Hepburn out as a major new directorial talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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