Patty Hearst

The beginning, in which Patty is kidnapped and Schrader films her captors from her perspective as harsh backlight washes out figures and overwhelms eyes accustomed to darkness, is so stunningly unnerving and even reminded me of Pedro Costa in its static but charged framing.…

Jake Cole

"They say I'm a spoiled rich brat, a symbol of what's wrong with the capitalist society. I don't really love the poor. I'm cold. I'm a millstone around their necks. I'm not a good soldier. I'm not pulling my weight." blindfolded, she imagines herself back home, as a…

matt lynch

“Patty Hearst” is a film for the runaways; the ones who are destined to end up in a cage not too dissimilar from the one they thought they escaped — if not in the exact same one from which they fled in the first place.  Paul Schrader’s 1988 work adapts the true life story…

theriverjordan

Patty Hearst’s story is pretty interesting in itself and adapted to film by Paul Schrader is just as interesting and offers a psychological look into the story where Patty Hearst is kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) and shows a spiral into isolation and…

Sam

Really a 3.25, this film covers the real-life kidnapping and indoctrination of Patty Hearst into a militant army that ultimately has her committing crimes. Natasha Richardson and Ving Rhames are amazing, as are some of the cinematographic and directorial choices -…

Alli

"Patty Hearst" is a 1988 crime drama film directed by Paul Schrader. As the title of the film easily displays, "Patty Hearst" is a biographical drama centered on the Patricia Hearst and the condition of her events intermixed with the Symbionese Liberation Army. On February…

Blake Bergman "Various Spaghetti"

After 25 years "Patty Hearst" is available on region 1 dvd. Thank you MOD. I, of course, am the last to know.

Paul Schrader

really heaves into view the paradox in which i exist of holding leftist views and beliefs while simultaneously believing that a burly majority of leftists are some of the cringiest people on planet earth

Jerry

This movie is pretty dated in many aspects, but atop all of that it captures everything that made the Patty Hearst case so fascinating to begin with. If there's anything that strikes oneself upon first glimpse from watching Paul Schrader's Patty Hearst, it can already be…

Jaime Rebanal 🇵🇸