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Good One
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Why watch?
“Le Gros’ performance in Good One feels like a companion to his role in Certain Women, just as the films themselves perhaps feel like works which could benefit from being appreciated together. Beautiful, reserved, powerful films about the burdens women in all their beautiful forms carry in a society made for and by men.”
Wendy Cook,
Head of Cinema
Hyde Park Pick: Good One
In India Donaldson's insightful, piercing debut, 17-year-old Sam (Lily Collias) embarks on a three-day backpacking trip in the Catskills with her dad, Chris (James Le Gros) and his oldest friend, Matt (Danny McCarthy). As the two men quickly settle into a gently quarrelsome brotherly dynamic, airing long-held grievances, Sam, wise beyond her years, attempts to mediate. But when lines are crossed and Sam's trust is betrayed, tensions reach a fever pitch, as Sam struggles with her dad's emotional limitations and experiences the universal moment when the parental bond is tested.
Selected in both Sundance and Cannes' Directors' Fortnight, Good One is an emotionally expansive work that probes the limits of familial trust, understanding, and ultimately, forgiveness.
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