Never Steady, Never Still
Shirley Henderson stars in the latest by Kathleen Hepburn, about a woman who, in the wake of her husband’s death, struggles to remain independent despite the advance of Parkinson's disease.
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11 October 1957, St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada
24 November 1965, Kincardine, Fife, Scotland, UK
31 January 1944, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
28 August 1991, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
24 March 1952, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
June 20, 2018
Henderson completely immerses herself in the character, emerging with a striking performance that gives Hepburn support to create an unusual examination of frustration in the wilds of Canada.
June 22, 2018
Hepburn doesn't demand that her characters conform to norms of sacrifice and redemption, preferring to follow Jamie and Judy's meandering, unhurried journey to cognizance and mutual appreciation.
October 19, 2017
British actress Shirley Henderson uses her soft voice and tiny frame to great effect.
May 02, 2018
Like the remote and frequently challenging terrain, Never Steady, Never Still has a sublime, hypnotic gravitas.
June 22, 2018
Self-consciously sad to an almost obnoxious degree, despite the dedicated work of a wonderful cast.
June 24, 2018
If you don't treat yourself to this movie, you will indeed be missing out on one of the best pieces of acting 2018 cinema has to offer.
June 22, 2018
Bleak but sometimes beautiful, the performance-driven feature debut is meatier than its slender plot might suggest, with a strong sense of place and an unsentimental frankness about conditions many filmmakers would milk for sympathy.
June 20, 2018
The film becomes a journey of trials and tribulations with as much inspirational grace as crippling resentment. For every kindness comes an explosion of rage or embarrassment.
April 23, 2018
It's subtle and effective and the performances are understated but excellent.
October 31, 2017
Settles on viewers as quietly as overnight snow on a wintering field.
April 23, 2018
There's not enough artistic merit in Kathleen Hepburn's film to make all its dourness worthwhile, but Henderson is excellent, and the scenes describing simple moments of compassion are poignant.
March 01, 2018
It's rather bleak but the camera work is exceptional, the pace languorous and Hepburn's screenplay deliberately ambiguous.
