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Janet Planet (2023)

Drama | 113 minutes
2,86 18 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 113 minuten

Country: United States / United Kingdom

Directed by: Annie Baker

Stars: Zoe Ziegler, Julianne Nicholson and Elias Koteas

IMDb score: 6,1 (3.687)

Janet Planet plot

In the year 1991, eleven-year-old Lacy is about to start her sixth grade. She lives with her mother Janet in their cottage in the woods in Massachusetts. During the summer period, the taciturn girl observes how three adults walk in and out of their lives. Some are old friends of her mother, others stay there for romance. At a crucial age, Lacy perceives the notion of a broken heart for the very first time.

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Fortune

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A film about an aging bad hippie mother who cannot unlearn her bad habits when it comes to men and considers her own interests more important than those of her daughter. Perhaps a very good example that people keep making the same mistake over and over again and cannot unlearn it. Hard to say whether from the mother's perspective it doesn't matter that her daughter is suffering or whether she simply doesn't realize it. These hippie women look familiar to me. One is preoccupied with men and the other hippie woman has no money or career, so to speak, but thinks she can lecture people while her own life is not very memorable. Quite interesting material, although I don't know if I'm viewing the film with too cynical a lens. In addition, the setting is nice; a long, sultry summer in a wooden house in nature. I don't actually have summers like this anymore because I'm too busy, but I know it from the past and that feeling is well depicted. Quite a strange film with a strange scene where the man suddenly disappears and I can't quite place that scene. Maybe someone who has seen the movie can explain that.

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Collins

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A particularly visually interesting film about a mother-daughter relationship. Janet Planet sketches a cosmos seen through children's glasses. It is the world of eleven-year-old Lacy, who sees her distant mother Janet as the central planet in her universe around which everything revolves. The astronomical analogy says something about the overwhelming aura that the emotionally inaccessible but ever-present mother figure possesses.

The film consists of episodes that cover a number of summer weeks and exposes the relationship between mother and daughter. The film kicks off with an episode that immediately makes it clear that Lacy is an introvert, that she cries out for motherly attention and that mother Janet is always looking for a certain recognition from different men. Recognition of what? I have no idea. The underlying reasons are unclear. The nature of the recognition as well. The characters are and remain diffuse beings. It is also immediately clear that very little happens in the film. The viewer witnesses many contemplative sequences and can enjoy the picturesque landscape and take heart from the summer atmosphere.

Nothing much happens. Summer experiences are simply much more fun and memorable in memory than in reality. I got the strong impression that there is a special meaning behind the little and trivial that happens. The contemplative nature of the images attracts such attention that this conclusion must be drawn. I completely missed the meaning (if there is one). I experienced Janet Planet as a long-winded exercise, but found comfort in the summery atmosphere drawing.

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Pazmaster

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Slow with a lot of boring parts. The cast plays quite ok, but for the rest it is quite soporific. Not sufficient.

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