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Penelope Walker – writer

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Category: Film

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri

Posted on March 17, 2019March 17, 2019 by Penelope Walker - Writer

Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri. Themes: redemption through suffering, family breakdown, domestic violence, grief and resilience. More subtly, the film… Read more Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri

At Eternity’s Gate – A Review

Posted on February 2, 2019February 3, 2019 by Penelope Walker - Writer

The casting of Willem Dafoe, who won Best Actor for his performance at the 2018 Venice Film Festival, is inspired. He portrays the complex gamut of emotions experienced by the tortured artist so deftly, that the act of watching becomes an exercise in empathy.

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