This story needs an introduction: A mother has abondoned her young children (decades ago), because she was depressed and as a young mother simply could not cope with the daily rut and responsibility of taking care of her own children.
Now we see that same mother (Olivia Colman) decades later, alone on a holiday. But while she is in this holiday beach resort, she gets aquainted with a young mother, who is battling with the same fatigue and depression of having to take care of young children.
That is all this movie is about. It's a very slowburning, subtle CHARACTER story.
The good: Terrific acting performance by Olivia Colman. The direction debut by actress Maggie Gylenhaal is quite decent, because she succeeds in painting a subtle, character portrait of this depressed and mentally disturbed mother, but the director fails in the most important part:
The bad: The reason I'll only award it with 6 stars, is because this movie lasted too long and there was little to no real drama. I got restless and somewhat bored half way through.
Missed opportunity to make a true drama. Such a pity...because this movie has got a lot going for it. Still worthwile a watch for the arthouse movie fans of the more subtle character movies.
Now we see that same mother (Olivia Colman) decades later, alone on a holiday. But while she is in this holiday beach resort, she gets aquainted with a young mother, who is battling with the same fatigue and depression of having to take care of young children.
That is all this movie is about. It's a very slowburning, subtle CHARACTER story.
The good: Terrific acting performance by Olivia Colman. The direction debut by actress Maggie Gylenhaal is quite decent, because she succeeds in painting a subtle, character portrait of this depressed and mentally disturbed mother, but the director fails in the most important part:
The bad: The reason I'll only award it with 6 stars, is because this movie lasted too long and there was little to no real drama. I got restless and somewhat bored half way through.
Missed opportunity to make a true drama. Such a pity...because this movie has got a lot going for it. Still worthwile a watch for the arthouse movie fans of the more subtle character movies.