Judy

 Judy 2019

• Director: Rupert Goold
• Seen by this director: The Hollow Crown
• Based on the book: no.
• Cast: Renée Zellwegger, Jessie Buckley, Finn Wittrock, Rufus Sewell, Michael Gambon Richard Cordery, Royce Pierreson, Darcy Shaw, Andy Nyman, Daniel Cerqueira, Bella Ramsey, Lewin Lloyd, John Dagleish, Gemma-Leah Devereux
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Renée Zellwegger – Cold Mountain, Chicago, White Oleander, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Nurse Betty, The Whole Wide World, Reality Bites
• Jessie Buckley – The Tempest
• Finn Wittrock – La La Land, Winter’s Tale
• Rufus Sewell – Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, The Tourist, Pillars of the Earth, Holiday, Amazing Grace, Paris je t’aime, The Taming of the Shrew Re-Told, A Knight’s Tale, Hamlet, Cold Comfort Farm, Middlemarch
• Michael Gambon – Fortitude, Victoria & Abdul, The Hollow Crown, Harry Potter, Quirke, The Quartet, Doctor Who, The King’s Speech, The Book of Eli, Cranford and a lot of others
• Royce Pierreson - Misfits
• Lewin Lloyd – Fortitude
• John Dagleish – The Gentlemen, All Is True, The Hollow Crown
• Why? Garland and Zellwegger.
• Seen: 11 November 2021      

       The story of Judy Garland.

       We know she was beloved of millions, we’ve seen her in classics, we know she was plagued by drug and alcohol addiction. We see her here as the teenager (Shaw), struggling against the pressures of being a child star with a slave-driver director, and as a pathetic has-been.

       Was it really this horrible? Poor Judy.

       It’s very depressing but oh, what an ending! Zellwegger is astounding and deserves her Oscar. 

5 * of 5