Step aside Furiosa and Quiet Place: Day One - because a little indie film called Janet Planet looks set to be the movie of the summer.
The coming-of-age film follows Lacy's struggle to share her mother with new romantic partners and friends, with Forbes' film critic Scott Phillips describing Janet's relationship with her daughter as 'often spouse-like'. 'A film about something there isn't a word for but there should be: the experience of being young and trying to glean the extent to which you feel safe being a part of the world.'Meanwhile, a third said the film should belong to its own genre - which they dubbed 'safety-ism'.
'I don't think anything on film has, or will ever, capture what being a kid felt like to me as well as this did.' When the film debuted at the 50th Telluride Film Festival last year, The Guardian's Adrian Horton wrote in a four-star review: 'Such is life – not always the most interesting, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t beautiful.Meanwhile, Stylist's Meg Walters added: 'Janet Planet is ultimately a doomed love story about the painful realisation that our parents are not wholly our own – that there are entire worlds within them that we can’t quite grasp.