CODA is an honest crowd-pleaser - one that gently charms, rather than claws or cloys, its way under your skin. (Think a deaf spin on Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace and Sidney Lumet’s Running on Empty, passed through a John Hughes filter, or tossed into a blender with recent Netflix teen movies like The Half of It.) But the unfussy warmth and feeling of the performances and direction should overcome even the staunchest resistance. There’s a lot of plot, and tones that should, in theory, clash.
Revolving around 17-year-old Ruby (Emilia Jones) and the tensions that arise when her passion for music pulls her away from her deaf parents and brother, CODA at times teeters toward unwieldiness. Though all the expected plot points are present and accounted for - the school concert and conservatory audition, the first kiss, fights and heart-to-hearts - the filmmaker (whose debut feature, Tallulah, premiered at Sundance 2016) stages them with uncommon delicacy, flaunting a finely tuned sense of when to push, how much and when to pull back. But one of writer-director Sian Heder’s most impressive feats is how shrewdly she handles the more familiar elements. CODA‘s focus on the fraught ties between deaf and hearing communities gives it a foundation of freshness. That’s not to say the film offers nothing new. Dramatic Competition)Ĭast: Emilia Jones, Troy Kotsur, Marlee Matlin, Daniel Durant, Eugenio Derbez, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Amy Forsyth CODA faithfully works its way through a checklist of tropes from high school comedies, disability dramas, musical-prodigy and inspiring-teacher narratives, coming-of-age tales about young people struggling to declare independence from overbearing families and indie chronicles of blue-collar America.
CAST OF CODA 2021 MOVIE
Even with its unusual premise (CODA is an acronym for “child of deaf adults”) and the representational novelty of three out of four leads being deaf - a notable difference from the original - the movie hardly feels like uncharted territory. remake of 2014 French dramedy La famille Bélier, about the sole hearing member of a deaf family who discovers she’s a gifted singer, is of the latter ilk. And there are those that lean into them - hard. There are films that upend conventions and subvert expectations.
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