![]() A remake of the French film La Famille Bélier (2014), it centres on Emilia Jones' Ruby, the only hearing person in a deaf family who live in Massachusetts on the US East coast. One film out this week that could move the dial yet further is Coda, a coming-of-age indie movie that was the big talking point of this year's Sundance Film Festival and was picked up for worldwide distribution by Apple TV+ in a record $25m coup. Couple that with a new wave of deaf actors on the verge of stardom, like Millicent Simmonds, star of both A Quiet Place movies Lauren Ridloff, who will be seen as one of the lead superheroes in Marvel's Eternals and Shoshannah Stern, who was the first deaf doctor in hit medical drama Grey's Anatomy, and it seems like deaf people may finally be gaining the kind of visibility within the industry that they have long been denied. ![]() Whereas previously deaf characters were, so often, relegated to reductive bit-parts and comedic relief, in films including Todd Haynes' Wonderstruck (2017), John Krasinski's A Quiet Place (2018) and its sequel, and Darius Marder's Sound of Metal (2019), they have become full-on protagonists. ![]() Now, another great shift in representation seems to be taking place – towards a more nuanced, powerful cinematic depiction of deafness. While not all change may be wholly positive, one development that is unarguably a good thing is the proliferation of more stories centring hitherto marginalised groups and demographics within the mainstream – from the emergence of a strain of newly en vogue queer cinema in the early 2010s, including films like A Single Man, Carol and Call Me by Your Name, to the way in which the likes of Black Panther and Moonlight have marked a new epoch for black creatives both behind, and in front of, the camera. With the advent and now-ubiquity of streaming, massive disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, and the much-discussed demise of the leading man, Hollywood is in greater flux than ever.
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