Trailer makes it look like it's trying very hard to be poignant and insightful. I do want to see it because the cast is super interesting (Love Olivia Thirlby... still waiting for her to have a break out role that makes her super famous). I'm just so tired of movies trying super hard to be arthouse and different. Just make a great film, tell a great story, and stop with the typical contrived Palm D'Or "festival film" look and feel.
Doug M.
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Palm D'Or ..whats that mean ?
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up"-Pablo Picasso
It means Palm of Gold or Golden Palm. "Or" is an Old English word for gold. I think the OP meant Palme d'Or. Probably some sort of award but just a guess though.
shareIt's a major award. I don't see the connection though. This looks nothing like The White Ribbon.
shareOr the french word for gold.
shareLena Dunham wrote it. Of COURSE it's pretentious. And very, completely, unmistakably white. Dont forget that either...
shareAs soon as I saw Lena Dunhams's name in the credits, I should have hit STOP. But I really like John Krasinski and Rosemarie DeWitt, so I gave it a try. I want my 1 and a half hours back :-(
shareMost Indie films usually are very pretentious.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
AND white! At least the ones I end up seeing lol.
I have to agree with some of what's already been said, there's like this undeserved self-importance to the film, particularly the conclusion. All this is a movie about some free love girl who because she's all free love doesn't take responsibility with who gets free passes to her vagina. Ugh and her blaming the power dynamic on Jon Krasinski, I'm just..I mean I agree it wasn't 'betrayal' but it wasn't some kind of rapey scenario. She was old enough and mature enough to know what the consequences were but she didn't care. I found it frustrating for the movie to set her up as this person that just sleeps around with every male character in the movie (except for justin kirk) and then suddenly gets teary about it when it doesn't end in her favor (whatever favor that might be). she knew what she was doing while she was doing it...I guess this isn't a critique on the acting, it's more that I felt like the film was either a) trying to make me empathize with her and I didn't, b) try to tell me I should say wow she really cared because she saved the daughter and gave her her favorite pair of jeans, that's so great, but she ruined that family, so that wasn't some fix-all c) that her relationship with the family was complicated, that it wasn't as straight forward as her _just_ being a mistress. I didn't buy it. I was glad that there was at least one confrontation by the wife, although I wished there was more with the husband but maybe that was to come 'later'.
I'm just left with a sour taste in my mouth because the plot of "she's a homewrecker with a heart of gold(EH, maybe bronze) and then she leaves" does not really do it for me.
I didn't think Martine was supposed to be a "free spirit" at all. She was a horrible user and totally pretentious. She was completely unlikable in every way. She is a total user of all men and probably many women, too.
The part towards the beginning with her torturing the voice actors was supposed to show how spoiled rotten she is. I think she wasn't particularly into anyone, just went along with those who wanted her to see how it could be useful.
I don't think the film was sympathetic toward her at all. Rather, you can see how people like that get ahead and they leave detritus in their wake. And whatever Jon Krasinski said about her family - man/woman, society/individual - she is just like the bugs she studies.
ANYWAY that character Martine will be rich and famous, charming a lot of people at least in the short-run along the way - you're supposed to see that coming but not to like her at all. That's my take on it.
It's pretentious but that's not a crime and you don't have to see it. Olivia T plays the main character and I never figured out what was supposed to be so special/hot about her. Anyway the other characters were quite discombobulated by her. My conclusion: if you like her so much you should start to watch it and then if you hate it stop.
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It was pretentious.
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