Film: A Good Woman is Hard to Find
Starring: Sarah Bolger,Edward Hogg,Andrew Simpson
Director: Abner Pastoll
Rating: ***1/2
Reviewer: George Sylex
Overview - Having established a strong first connection with his presentation feature film Road Games, Filmmaker Abner Pastoll has a significantly greater effect with A Good Woman is Hard to Find, an eerie, startling show that sees an as of late bereft mother of two attempting to endure a universe of crime and sadness after a deplorable occasion with a drug dealer brings all damnation down on her.
The main protagonist (Sarah Bolger) has two small kids, bills to pay, and an as of late expired husband. It's an extreme life, especially since the police seem to be impartial in exploring or understanding her husband's homicide, yet, she manages. Another test emerges, however, when a little league thug named Tito (Andrew Simpson) comes colliding with her level on the run from greater time hooligans who he's simply ripped off. Tito stashes the drugs there, and leaves, however he's before long making return visits without wanting to. More terrible, the neighborhood crime ruler's quest for Tito is carrying him and his boys closer to her home and children as well.
Like Abner Pastoll's past film, Road Game, his most recent is indeed an alluring thriller that feels both new and natural enough. Cinematographer Richard C. Ringer finds an unmistakable wonder in Sarah's environmental factors while composer Matthew Pusti helps the film's impetus and climate with the outcome being a determinedly engaging story of one woman drove a few steps out of line. Hurl in some sharp discourse on the visually impaired judgment time after time doled out to the common laborers, some frightful body bits, and what ought to be a star-production execution, and A Good Woman Is Hard to Find gets one of this peculiar year's must sees.
The film is dark and coarse in each conceivable sense and exploits its naturalistic environmental factors to recount to a grounded and develop anecdote about the distinct, brutal real factors of life inside an unremarkable urban setting. Concentrating on a genuinely tormented woman who experiences an enthusiastic change as the film advances. Toward the start, her mom reveals to her that 'so as to go anyplace in this world you must be somewhat of a bitch', and all through the film, we see somebody going from this bashful and delicate person to being a solid, certain, and who's at long last in charge of her own life by the end.
The overall set-up of Ronan Blaney's screenplay is sufficiently straightforward, however, the delight is in the ways, and decisions that finish A Good Woman Is Hard to Find's lean and effective running time. Many years of comparable sounding thrillers have instructed watchers to expect certain things, especially in the connection between a female hero and a trouble maker who's not the most noticeably terrible person, Yet, the film remains on its toes all through and deftly moves around those clichés. The pacing feels more slow yet fabricates the strain, and moving from rustic France to urban Ireland causes the world to feel progressively unmistakable and genuine.
Sarah Bolger's exhibition is courageous, crude, and nuanced, wonderfully passing on her feelings through the most unobtrusive of ways, either through her calm body language, or her ever-expressive eyes. This whole film lays completely on her exhibition, yet Bolger develops triumphant, and ideally, we'll see incredible things from this rising star soon. Outwardly, this film is delightfully executed with the shading palette going from quieted and dismal to getting progressively energetic and serious by the end, mirroring the change of our focal hero, all aided immensely by Richard C. Chime's master cinematography and Matthew Pusti's creepy score.
Final Word - A Good Woman is Hard to Find grasps the rumination is in an environment stifling with destitution, despair, and the memory of many years of brutality prepared into the walls. The film is, more than all else, a grandstand for the impressive acting gifts of Sarah Bolger.
