Watch List Weekly Recap 5/6/22
Subjects this week include: Late-period Hepburn (Audrey, not Katharine), a wrenching new drama on a very relevant subject, and ten ideas for movies to watch with Mom.
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Audrey Hepburn would have turned 92 this past Wednesday, and I took time to honor the occasion with a look at her later filmography, with four must-see movies and precious few missteps.
In theaters this week (and available for streaming in June), Audrey Diwan’s “Happening” is a nail-biter about a young woman desperately seeking an illegal abortion in 1963 France. For obvious reasons, it couldn’t be more timely.
For Mother’s Day, why not watch a movie with mom, or just to remember her? Here are five films about mothers doing their best by their kids — and five where they come close to doing their worst.
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