In 1918, a young woman on the brink of madness pursues stardom in a desperate attempt to escape the drudgery, isolation, and lovelessness of life on her parents' farm.
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Tending to her ailing father, under the watch of her overbearing mother, Perl hopes to change her life and fulfil her dreams, but her repression clashes with her ambition with horrific consequences.
Ti West's cleverly realised tale oozes cinema, capturing the...
★★★★★
Ti West's prequel to his movie X, and made the same year. Here we get the backstory of Pearl from the earlier film as she tries to follow her dreams of movie stardom. It's 1918, her husband has yet to return from the war, and she's stuck on the family farm run...
★★★★★
Pearl is an absorbing character study of a woman who mentally and emotionally unravels, leading to devastating effects for those closest to her.
It is a well crafted story, cleverly peeling back the character of Pearl and providing a great contextualisation t...
★★★★★
Mia Goth delivers an impressive but somewhat misguided performance as the title character in this origin story for the main antagonist of Ti West's X. The movie is reasonably entertaining and intermittently funny. The imagery is sometimes gross; but the movie...
★★★★★
"Pearl" is Ti West's followup to the 1970s-set "X", which serves as an origin story for that film's villain. It focuses on her life as a lonely and whimsical young woman who feels stifled by her obligations caring for her family in 1918 Texas while her husband...
