EXTRA: My new review of Wildcat

Spoiler alert: I love this new biopic on Flannery O'Connor

Think Christian just published my review of Ethan Hawke’s new film on Flannery O’Connor. The film is in theaters now in some cities. I’m not sure when it will be available for streaming.

Here’s a taste of my review:

Flannery O’Connor was a prophet.

Like all prophets, O’Connor saw and told the truth. What she saw and told was of and for her own time, viewed from the perspective of a devout Catholic living in the Christ-haunted American South of the 20th century. And yet, in Wildcat—the new film based on her life and work, directed by Ethan Hawke and starring his daughter Maya Hawke as the author—O’Connor’s prophetic vision stares piercingly into our own day.

Covering just a few years of O’Connor’s too-short life and weaving into the biographical narrative dramatizations of some of her most emblematic works, Wildcat is at its heart a portrait of the artist as a young woman. An imaginative exploration that captures how O’Connor’s real life and real relationships served as fodder for her stories, Wildcat (the film’s title comes from the title of one of O’Connor’s earliest short stories) is as much about O’Connor’s creative process as it is about her art.

You can read the whole review and watch the film trailer here: https://thinkchristian.net/wildcat-and-why-flannery-oconnor-still-matters