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4 days ago · Still, this is a movie in which the journey is the destination, quite literally. The low-tech method of reporting on her progress across the English Channel initially provides some laughs, then great tension. The ebullient sense of joy on the other hand is crowd-pleasing without being corny. “Young Woman and the Sea” doesn’t reinvent the ...
3 days ago · Review: In ‘Young Woman and the Sea,’ a true story of perseverance gets the epic treatment. Daisy Ridley in the movie “Young Woman and the Sea.”. After distance swimmer Trudy Ederle swam ...
5 days ago · In a brassy set piece from the 1952 classic “Singin’ in the Rain,” its star, Gene Kelly, impersonates a newbie hoofer seeking fame on the Great White Way. “Gotta dance!” he exclaims to ...
4 days ago · Affectionately adapted from Glenn Stout’s book “Young Woman and the Sea: How Trudy Ederle Conquered the English Channel and Inspired the World” by Jeff Nathanson (of “Catch Me If You Can ...
5 days ago · Daisy Ridley in 'Young Woman and the Sea' Disney. Gertrude Ederle loved the water. “To me, the sea is like a person — like a child I’ve known a long time,” she once said. “ I never feel ...
5 days ago · The bigger focus here, certainly, is her relationship with other women: her sister Meg (Tilda Cobham-Hervey), her mother (Jeanette Hain), and her first swimming teacher, Charlotte Epstein (Sian ...
2 days ago · Familiar but engaging, Joachim Rønning’s biographical sports drama, about the taxing journey of swimmer Trudy Ederle and how she was the first swimmer to swim across the English Channel, certainly holds a lot of sports movie cliches, and it holds many of the same narrative beats as last year’s Nyad, but it’s so empowering, compelling, and its noble tribute to female athletes.
