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Adrianne and the Castle
2024 Canadian documentary film From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Adrianne and the Castle is a 2024 Canadian documentary film, directed by Shannon Walsh.[1]
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Premise
The film profiles Alan St. George, a man who maintains his home in rural Illinois as a shrine to his late wife Adrianne, including musical re-enactments of scenes from their earlier lives together performed by actors Nathan McDonald and SLee.[2]
Release
The film premiered at the 2024 SXSW festival,[3] and had its Canadian premiere at the 2024 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.[4] It also screened as the opening film of the 2024 DOXA Documentary Film Festival,[5] prior to playing at the 28th Fantasia International Film Festival on July 20, 2024.[6]
Critical reception
Adrianne & the Castle received generally positive reviews, with critics praising its emotional depth and visual storytelling. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 64% of 11 critics' reviews are positive.[7]
On RogerEbert.com, Clint Worthington wrote: "For all its wistful magic, Adrianne & the Castle is a film about grief and what happens when you lose the very thing that defined your life up to that point.[8]
Grading the film A- on IndieWire, Lauren Wissot wrote: "Personally, I saw Adrianne & The Castle as a queer hetero love story between a female drag queen and her submissive partner, even if that very 21st century assessment feels totally out of sync with the couple’s turn-of-the-20th-century aristocratic lifestyle. And yet the ambiguity of Walsh’s film is also the greatest strength of the intoxicating story it tells in such intimate and specific detail, a story whose moral is to throw such mundane thinking aside and embrace the higher truth that love conquers all — doubt and death alike."[9]
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