It’s the rare role that could be said to be both shark and Oscar bait. Yet Bening’s performance has little vanity to it. Her Diana is obsessively single-minded to the point of unlikeabl…
Annette Bening as Diana Nyad, left, and Jodie Foster as Bonnie Stoll, in a scene from the film “Nyad.”In “Nyad,” there are two feats of perseverance on display. First, there is the ceaseless determination of Diane Nyad to accomplish a marathon swim from Cuba to Florida across 103 miles of open, shark-infested waters. Then there is the mettle of Nyad’s support team to tolerate the singularly self-absorbed and stubborn Nyad. Both, in the film, are an endurance sport.
Diana soon thereafter gets back in the pool, resolving to complete the Cuba-to-Florida swim, a route some moviegoers may associate more with the Go-Fast boats of Michael Mann’s “Miami Vice” than athletic pursuit. For Diana, the 50-hour endeavor is a matter of completing a long-ago abandoned dream and a way to prove to herself that age is no match for her will.
Other supporting characters are along for the ride, too, most notably Rhys Ifans’ crusty sea-dog navigator John Bartlett. He’s a cliche but a darn likable one. Nyad has, herself, often been a brash and savvy self-promoter less likely to share the spotlight. It’s to the movie’s credit that it pushes back against its prickly protagonist at the same time it exalts her.
Those films were excellent not just due to Vasarhelyi and Chin’s own filmmaking adventurousness but because of their firm grasp of the psychology of those who push themselves to physical extremes. “Nyad” relies on flashbacks to Diana’s past — including an encounter with an unnamed swim coach Nyad said sexually assaulted her and others — to dig into what fuels her.
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