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PMA Films: Janet Planet

  • Portland Museum of Art 7 Congress Square Portland, ME, 04101 United States (map)

SCREENING IN THE BERNARD OSHER FOUNDATION AUDITORIUM


[An] understated miracle of a directorial debut.
— Esther Zuckerman, Indiewire

113 minutes. Rated PG-13. Directed by Annie Baker. In English. DCP.

In rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother, Janet. As the months pass, three visitors enter their orbit, all captivated by Janet and her spellbinding nature. In her solitary moments, Lacy inhabits an inner world so extraordinarily detailed that it begins to seep into the outside world. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker captures a child's experience of time passing, and the ineffability of a daughter falling out of love with her mother, in this singularly sublime film debut.

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Earlier Event: July 19
PMA Films: Janet Planet
Later Event: July 20
PMA Films: Janet Planet