I'll See You in My Dreams
Crit
First thought: this must have been an especially challenging film from which to cut a trailer, and I admire the sensitive decisions the trailer cutters made in terms of what to reveal and what to reserve. The result is a trailer that deceives a bit, but defensibly. Because . . .
Second thought: yes, this is a romance between Carol (the luminescent Blythe Danner) and Bill (Sam Elliott, who's pretty damned luminescent himself--and his character's boat is named for a Miles Davis song), but it also has more going on, more interesting stuff, like the question of what, exactly, is left as one approaches the end of a good life long lived.
Third thought: oddly, not particularly is Carol's interaction with her bridge-playing, golfing, speed-dating, and dope-smoking buddies, though they're played by actors I'm always happy to see, June Squibb, Rhea Perlman, and Mary Kay Place. The problem, I think, is that their exchanges sound too written, too much designed to sound what like four old broads would talk about. I wanted to love the other three characters, but there was nothing there to make it happen.
Fourth thought: that the title song is not the song we assume it will be, given that the protagonist is a torch singer of a certain age, who karaoke-croons "Cry Me a River" (and no, not à la Joe Cocker), is probably a joke on the sweet but callow young character who writes it and on Carol, andcertainly a joke on us.
Final thought: take it from someone with a history of rodential agonistics, you will never in a million years catch a rat like that.
Trailers
- Learning to Drive--My future wife Patty Clarkson's character is far from Happy-Go-Lucky.
- Pawn Sacrifice--Tobey Maguire as Bobby Fischer; I'm in.
- Irrational Man--Woody's new one, with Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, and Parker Posey.
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