Collections/February 2022

Three Starring Laura Dern

February 10 marks Laura Dern’s fifty-fifth birthday, and we’re celebrating with a trio of virtuosic and strikingly varied early performances from this actor who continues to surprise and delight with the daring, intelligence, and warmth she brings to each role. Embodying an array of complex women—from a sexually liberated Depression-era teenager in Martha Coolidge’s wonderfully tender Rambling Rose to an outrageously dysfunctional mother-to-be in Alexander Payne’s audacious abortion-politics satire Citizen Ruth —Dern displays the touching vulnerability and innate humanity that make each of her characters unforgettable.

3 films — 1 on the Channel, 2 unavailable