Klara and the Sun

"Klara" (Jenny Ortega) is the last in a long line of increasingly redundant personal robots whose hopes of being sold are dwindling by the days that she spends in the window of their shop with her colleagues. Then, out of the blue, she espies "Josie" (Mia Tharia) who is out shopping with her mother (Amy Adams) for that very thing. Shunning the more advanced models, she convinces "Chrissy" to buy her the older version and next thing "Klara" is ensconced in their substantial but remote home. Their housekeeper "Melania" (Rachel House) doesn't exactly trumpet her arrival but once she has recalibrated it soon becomes clear that neither of her two mistresses have their problems to seek and that for "Klara" the sun is going to play an intregral part in not just her charging cycle but it provides her with a substantial amount of her faith, too. What now ensues takes a look at the effects of...

Check out my full review @ https://movieswetextedabout.com/klara-and-the-sun-movie-review-jenna-ortega-carries-taika-waititis-gentle-heartfelt-drama/ Rating: B- KLARA AND THE SUN is a warm, gentle drama that I quite enjoyed. Jenna Ortega carries it with one of my favorite performances of hers: expressive, funny, and much more complete than she’ll get credit for. Taika Waititi keeps his humor under control, and those light, kindly comedic bits suit Kazuo Ishiguro’s story. The isolated farm, the sunlight, and Klara’s pixelated point of view give it an imaginative, almost fantasy-like feel, and Michael Giacchino’s score is great as always. Its ideas about humanity, faith, and loneliness are interesting, but the film saves most of them for the final act, repeats the same kinds of scenes far too often, and gets more sentimental than it needs to. The ambiguous messaging around AI companions...