Todd Haynes has a way with female stars. I would even call him the new-age George Cukor in that regard. Whether in Carol with Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, or his HBO limited series Mildred Pierc…
The title is fine, but watching the film I kept thinking a really great title for it from Hollywood’s past would have beenfrom the aforementioned Sirk, not that this movie has anything else in common with that 1959 weepie, but its title does in terms of the basic concept here — about a TV actress who descends upon Savannah, Georgia to spend a few days researching her latest role, playing a real-life 36-year-old wife and mother who was the rage of tabloids 20 years earlier due to her affair and...
More importantly, why did all this happen? Does Gracie, who we see is prone to sudden emotional outbursts, have mental issues, or was she just incredibly needy and looking for eternal happiness? She lives in a small island town that has whispered behind her back for years. That is very apparent, even as she runs her own cake-baking business but not with a big clientele as Elizabeth learns.
Mirrors in general have a lot to do with this film: whole conversations are shot in front of them, all the better for the imitation of a life that is about to start shooting in three weeks.
really is believable and vulnerable here as the 33-ish-year-old version of a kid who succumbed to this in the first place, though just who seduced who seems to be a bone of contention between Gracie and Joe. Smith, who was inThe music is terrific, and it should be, because Haynes fell in love with the late-great Michel Legrand’s 1971 score for, a Julie Christie movie, and had composer Marcelo Zavros adapt it.
The film is looking for distribution. Rocket Science presents, and several production companies are involved including Gloria Sanchez, Killer Films and Mountain A in association with Taylor & Dodge and Project Infinity. Producers are Portman, Sophie Mas, Christine Vachon, Pamela Koffler, Grant S. Johnson, Tyler W. Konney, Jessica Elbaum and Will Ferrell.
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