‘Nyad’ Review: Annette Bening And Jodie Foster Soar In Thrilling Saga Of A Driven Swimming Legend Who Won’t Give Up On A Lifelong Dream – Telluride Film Festival
deadline.comDiana Nyad was a swimming legend, a stellar athlete in the 1970s who achieved the heights of her sport, and then went on to a successful decades-long career in the broadcast booth for ABC Sports, ESPN, and elsewhere.
The new movie Nyad is not about any of that. In this regard, the film, a first narrative effort from Oscar-winning documentary filmmakers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (Free Solo, The Rescue), has something in common with Bradley Cooper’s Maestro, which premiered today in Venice.
Neither movie is a traditional biopic about their title subject, but rather a movie with a singular focus that digs much deeper into the weeds to discover what drove them and made them who they were.
For a film revolving around an athlete, making this the story of a champion who starts all over at age 60 is decidedly an un-Hollywood-like thing to do.
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