Maya Hawke stars as famous Southern author Flannery O’Connor in “Wildcat,” a misfire that proves a good biopic is still hard to find.
biopic, begins with a trailer for an entirely different movie, a black-and-white drama about “Star Drake,” the alias of a character from O’Connor’s short story “The Comforts of Home.” Star Drake was dubbed the town floozy who pays for everything with bad checks. The trailer feverishly describes the plot as “the outspoken story of an indiscreet woman,” a phrase that could indeed describe a movie about the author herself.
Maya Hawke plays Flannery at the cusp of her battle with lupus, the disease that took her father’s life when she was a teenager, and that will claim her own at 39. The film follows along as her mother Regina transfers her from her short stay in New York amongst the literary luminaries of the time, back home to Georgia and the childhood farmhouse in which Flannery will spend the rest of her life. Hawke and Linney circle each other, as mothers and daughters with prickly relationships do.
These vignettes and the main narrative arc are shot with the same dim color palette and soft lighting, worldbuilding with a heavy touch of the spooky Southern landscape that inspired O’Connor’s Gothic tales. There’s an appropriate coldness to everything. Bare trees claw at skies so blue they’ve turned green. Grasses have dried and browned while urban architecture sharpens and pokes.
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