As Margaret’s loving but frazzled parents, McAdams and Safdie are remarkably sincere, discrete characters in their own right.It's weird! it's cerebral! everyone is sad! it nearly killed me! it's a good 100 pages longer than WICKED SAINTS! Graham is hilarious and heartbreaking as the ostensible antagonist, her outsize bravura punctured by a wrenching moment of true vulnerability.
Steve Saklad’s rich and detailed production design immerses us in this world, bursting with macramé and houseplants and tapestries, but it also tells a story in the Teenage Softies sanitary napkins or the disastrous living room that Barbara stalls in furnishing.Īnd the people populating this film make it beautifully real and moving.įortson brings Margaret’s tweenage anxiety to vivid life as she struggles to figure out who and how she is in the world. It remains true to the book but also highlights that so many of these questions and issues remain the same, five decades later. Whether or not she believes, Margaret’s “God” is a confidant and friend that exists outside the power struggles and religious divisions that have shaped her family life for better or for worse.įremon Craig brings a fluidity and easy rhythm to the film, which is highly specific to its 1970 setting but fresh and contemporary too.
All the while, she chats with God about her innermost thoughts and feelings, processing the complexities of her social and family life. She tries out temple to the delight of Sylvia, as well as a Southern Baptist church, a Protestant Christmas Eve Mass and even dabbles in Catholic confession. A new generation is taking up the fightįifty-three years after the publication of Blume’s ‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret,’ the fight to destigmatize menstruation continues in film and TV. Movies Judy Blume made periods a hot-button topic.
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