Screen Daily Reviews I’m Wanita

The film’s core is the damaged, proud, generous, self-centred, utterly unpredictable Wanita herself

Walker’s film is stranger and more nuanced than its ‘late-life A Star Is Born’ setup would suggest. What makes it stand out from a host of imitators is its shape-shifting moral and emotional arc: the story we get at the end is richer, messier and more interesting than a mere fairy tale…

This is the second time Walker has made a film about Wanita after his 2015 short Heart Of The Queen. But what emerges is not a fanboy’s devotion, rather a can’t-look-away fascination with a charismatic train wreck of a woman who is capable at times of insightful self-criticism.

Music, both Wanita’s own and those of the country legends she was raised on, binds, lifts and heals, sometimes in surprising ways.

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