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title: "Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World (2026)"
description: "Here is a film about a woman who taught a whole country how to kneel in wet grass and call it prayer. It is fine. It is a doorway,"
url: https://www.joekarlsson.com/reviews/mary-oliver-saved-by-the-beauty-of-the-world/
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# Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World (2026)

Sep 17, 2026 | Rated 3.5 out of 5 | Dir. Sasha Waters

Here is a film about a woman who taught a whole country how to kneel in wet grass and call it prayer. It is fine. It is a doorway,

But the thing that made me sit up was John Waters, who should have been ninety percent of this, gossiping like a gull on a piling, delighted, indiscreet, alive.

I will confess I never took her seriously. And then a poem of hers would open a door in my chest I did not know was a door, and I would put on my shoes and go out walking into the woods.

Also on [Letterboxd](https://letterboxd.com/joekarlsson/film/mary-oliver-saved-by-the-beauty-of-the-world/)

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