Marielle Heller's latest drama, centered on a reporter's friendship with Mister Rogers, is a worthy follow-up to 'The Diary of a Teenage Girl' and 'Can You Ever Forgive Me?'
“A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” is the most beguiling thing, a movie that feels entirely truthful even within its own Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
This framing sequence is a remarkable feat of mimicry, a gentle mike drop of an intro that quickly establishes a mood of calm , but also a note of grown-up unease. The power of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” you may recall, had everything to do with the warmth and specificity of its approach, its compassionate regard for every member of the audience. Mr. Rogers may reach millions every week, but as he notes here, he always tries “to look through the camera into the eyes of a single child.
This fabrication matters less than you might think. The real Fred Rogers, after all, availed himself of fictional storytelling and puppet-play allegory, and he knew full well its power to illuminate complex human feelings in a way that unvarnished reality could not. Lloyd may be as much of a construct, in his way, as Daniel Tiger or King Friday XIII, but the movie crucially treats his emotional life with the utmost sincerity and seriousness.
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