Young Woman and the Sea ( now streaming on Disney+ ) biopicicizes Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to swim across the English Channel. Directed by Joachim Ronning ( Maleficent: Mistress of Evil and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell no Tales ) and adapting a biography by author Glenn Stout, this is the second recent movie about a female swimmer of note, following 2023’s Diane Nyad bio Nyad . So yes, this is a BOATS ( Based On A True Story ) movie about Someone Who Did Something Significant And/Or Inspiring, and it’s also a period picture, following her life from roughly 1914 to 1926 – which is a way of saying, hey, batten down the hatches, you’re about to watch a whole bunch of montages! YOUNG WOMAN AND THE SEA : STREAM IT OR SKIP IT? The Gist: FRAMING DEVICE ALERT: Gertrude (Daisy Ridley) stands on the shore, her skin smeared with lard, looking out at the raging sea.
She sings “Ain’t We Got Fun” to herself. She almost didn’t make it to this point: Flashback to New York City, 1914. Trudy’s a kid (played by Olive Abercrombie), in bed, deathly ill with the measles.
The doctor’s assessment? She won’t make it through the night. Her parents, Henry (Kim Bodnia) and Gertrude (Jeanette Hain), sit vigil downstairs. The morning comes and.
.. Trudy walks down the steps and declares herself to be hungry.
The fever broke. Relief! A miracle? The movie almost certainly wants us to think so. In the wake of a ship that sank and resulted in many women drowning because.
