This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
One and a half stars for Charlize’s facial expressions and the kid playing the daughter with no story, as they brought more to this movie than the screenwriter and the director did. ‘Where on earth is this going’, I kept wondering, confused by the strongly varying quality of camera work, montage and music, which made me wonder if mumblecore Disney movies are a thing now.
At first I only felt disappointed that it just took me to a lame turn…
If for one thing I’m glad this movie is 2h37m, it’s that I had plenty of time to think about why it irritated me so badly. It didn’t take me long however, to realize I wasn’t watching Cate Blanchett play a lesbian woman, I was watching her play a straight man (at which of course she did an amazing job, half a star for Cate).
To me, this whole script (story, dialogues, character development) seriously feels like a story of…
