Anne Hathaway's new May-December romance movie is barely plausible — and that's the point
have a lot of fun in movies. If we are depicted onscreen we are often shown as harried, hypercompetent mothers and wives. We are tragically divorcing or exhaustedly raising our children. Sometimes we do some murder. Other times we walk into the sea.
And it is hard to pull women from the ecosystem of our lives. A straight-to-streaming release means no dark movie theater isolation. No stripping away of our context. This Hollywood confection is piped into our homes in the midst of the piles of laundry and the teenage daughter texting us about her missing earbuds and the sneaker-strewn floors, and stacks of dishes. I am, per the stereotype, a harried single mother.
Hayes comes to L.A. and finds her. Convinces her to try again. But that, too, falls apart when Izzy, Solène’s daughter, is bullied at school over the relationship. Solène is harassed with tabloid headlines and social media posts calling her gross and a predator. Solène, again, breaks up with Hayes. But the movie offers up more fantasy: Five years after their split, Solène is now an empty nester, her obligations to her family less all-consuming. Hayes, who now has a solo career, manly stubble, and a fully functioning frontal lobe, comes back to Solène. We are meant to believe these crazy kids give it another go.
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