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Its intense you break a sweat just keeping up.
1 is so central to the film that its spelled out in the trailer.
Right, here goes: Isabel recognizes Oscar.
Like, really well.
But … What did Oscar do after Isabel decamped for India?
Could he have gone to the adoption agency and … ?
Could the blushing bride be … ?
The changes Freundlich made are fascinating brave but half-baked.
They add a new dimension and a dose of bewilderment.
Freundlich keeps nearly every major beat of Biers story but gives it a gender swap.
The change sets up all kinds of black holes and freaky crosscurrents.
A mom who finds out will get …
I dont know because I dont think it has ever happened.
But I could be wrong.
Call our phone line and tell us your story and we might just put you on the air.
(NB: We dont actually have a phone line.)
(Williams rarely gets the kudos she deserves.)
At a certain point, Isabel seems to have emptied herself of feeling.
Did Isabel and Oscar really belong together, as their Danish forebears did?
Its a little muddy.
But when it comes to drama, muddy waters arent necessarily unhealthy ones.
Shes all smiles, though theyre half and quarter smiles, always compromised by pesky subtext.
How deep does that subtext go?
Is Teresa a bystander or a puppet master?
The movie builds to a crying scene that I knew was in Moores wheelhouse.
(In various interviews, Moore has made clear that she can weep on cue.)
But I was still astounded by the notes she hit.
Shes some kind of actress.
Abby Quinn does a lot of the movies heavy lifting and more than holds her own.
I love how the director gives space to his actors, even the ones hes not married to.
None of the characters has a true home.
