After yesterday's big opener, Gravity, another woman-versus-the-world film has screened at Venice and has been met with fair reviews. Guy Lodge at HitFix is one of the most complimentary, praising Mia Wasikowska's lead performance, and the cinematography by Australia DP Mandy Walker (who stood a chance, then, of becoming the first female Best Cinematography Oscar nominee in history, and now may do again). Oliver Lyttleton in The Playlist also has good things to say about the contributions by Walker and Wasikowska, and also upcoming composer Garth Stevenson (his score can be heard in this clip, and it is rather nice). Derek Malcolm's brief and not very insightful review in the London Evening Standard rates the film four stars out of five, but it receives just two from The Guardian's Xan Brooks, who comes across impressed with only the film's Outback scenery.
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