The Guardian
Janet Planet review – mother-daughter relationship unfolds in dreamy summer haze
...listless, bored ushers in an empty cinema auditorium between screenings; now she makes her feature debut, writing and directing a very personal movie about an 11-year-old girl spending a fraught summer with her mum in her rural Massachusetts home in the summer of 1991...very good as single-mum Janet, who has recently completed her training as an acupuncturist and now has a practice funkily branded “Janet Planet”; her daughter Lacy (good stuff from the newcomer Zoe Ziegler) hates summer camp and makes a plaintive payphone...
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