Nina Metz: ‘Violet’ by Justine Bateman is a movie where a woman’s fears and anxieties are right there on the screen
by Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune
Feb 04, 2022
4 minutes
CHICAGO — In the 2021 indie drama “Violet” from writer-director Justine Bateman (which had a limited release in theaters last fall), a Hollywood development executive played by Olivia Munn experiences intrusive thoughts and self-doubt as she goes about her daily life. On the surface, Violet seemingly has it all: Beauty, a job that she’s good at and a hunky best friend who seems interested in more. But her colleagues and acquaintances are none the wiser to her quietly unrelenting inner turmoil, which manifests on screen in different forms: Sometimes it’s a running monologue of negativity in her head (voiced by Justin Theroux), sometimes the sentiments are more
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