28.09 / 02:35
film
Evan Rachel Wood on Kajillionaire's Universal Queer Love Story
Kajillionaire in which the isolated character Old Dolio, played by Evan Rachel Wood, steps through a door and literally into the light with Gina Rodriguez’s Melanie, the first person who’s ever shown her tenderness. The scene of discovery (or rediscovery) and the film speak to the current situation since lockdown more presciently than could have been imagined when it was a smash at Sundance in January.Kajillionaire, from writer-director Miranda July, is both deeply funny and heartrending as it offers hope for a character who’s been cut off from all human interaction, save for that of her cold, grifter parents.
