There’s nothing tidy about Daphne’s love life — and if there were, she probably wouldn’t make a very compelling character. Daphne, who is played by Shailene Woodley in what is simultaneously her mo…
There’s nothing tidy about Daphne’s love life — and if there were, she probably wouldn’t make a very compelling character. Daphne, who is played byin what is simultaneously her most realistic and least accessible performance yet, recently broke up with her boyfriend, moving back into her sister’s pool house. That split had something to do with a drunken one-night stand.
It’s the sort of role Gena Rowlands might have played in her 20s, if John Cassavetes had only figured out his method earlier. Doremus arrived at his own voice with 2011 Sundance winner “Like Crazy” — about a transatlantic couple separated by visa issues — and this is the closest he’s come to re-creating the feel of that film since. Here, there’s no institution to blame, unless you count the patriarchy.
It’s hard to know what exactly the film is coding into its various sex scenes.
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