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Film reviews: New releases for July 17
The Odyssey; Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World
Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World **1/2 When dealing with an artist who is revered by many as a kind of prophet, a biographer/documentarian can choose to lean into that idea, or attempt to pull their subject back down to earth—and I’m not sure director Sasha Waters knows exactly which path to take in profiling poet Mary Oliver.
There are plenty of life details included, following Oliver from her childhood in 1940s Ohio to Beatnik-era Greenwich Village to her long residency in Provincetown, Mass. with her partner Molly Malone Cook.
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