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The Tale [Sub: Eng]
His job is ideal for Jennifer and a beloved friend who could own the world, but perhaps that was not enough because her 13-year-old story 'The Wisdom' sounds painful because her mother learned of that story she wrote. Jennifer is a prestigious newspaper that seems to have everything easy but maybe then it will be difficult.
12 May 1952, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
15 August 1953, East Hartford, Connecticut, USA
21 March 1974, Portland, Oregon, USA
19 October 1978, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
May 24, 2018
Dern, not surprisingly, rises to the occasion as a woman questioning everything she knows. The power in her performance is in moments of quiet flux.May 23, 2018
The film feels like [Jennifer Fox is] taking us on a journey of self-exploration without a foregone conclusion, which makes the end result both satisfying and not satisfying, much like real life.April 10, 2018
The film is, necessarily, shocking but Fox handles what must have been difficult emotional material for her in a cool and responsible way that makes the message she delivers all the more devastating.May 25, 2018
The most shocking, upsetting thing Fox has done is tell a story about the malleability of our memories.May 25, 2018
The Tale is above all a work of profound empathy, as a look inside someone's psyche would have to be.May 26, 2018
The Tale is not a wonderful story by any means but it's so beautifully crafted by Jennifer Fox with a career-best performance by actress Laura Dern.May 25, 2018
The film is one long interrogation, not only from Jennifer the character's standpoint, but from a directorial standpoint.May 25, 2018
In a performance that ranks among the best I've seen in any film (theatrical or otherwise) this decade, Laura Dern essentially stands in for Fox... a beautifully nuanced portrayal of a smart, accomplished, independent woman.May 25, 2018
Please do not call The Tale "a #MeToo movie." It's reductive. And this beautiful, gripping, disturbing film deserves to be looked at with as much nuance as it offers. It's not a damned hashtag-anything movie.May 25, 2018
"The Tale" is a push, then, to disseminate a hard truth - and by extension an argument for confronting the reality of abuse and abusers, no matter how painful that process might be. And it's effective. Frighteningly, unforgettably so.May 25, 2018
Fox does well by her protagonists - both of them.May 27, 2018
Ultimately, "The Tale" is a wrenching, heartfelt success.