**Available on DVD**
Starring Sally Hawkins and Eddie Marsan
Written and Directed by Mike Leigh
What happens when you have a great actress acting in a movie that has no plot at all?
Find out by watching this flick.
There is seriously not a plot to this movie at all. Poppy (wonderfully played by Hawkins) is happy all the time. She's never sad. She wants to learn to drive. She hires a driving instructor (Marsan). He's a curmudgeon. Their personalities clash.
That's it.
Nothing else to it at all.
Two hours of nothing. How this film got nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards is beyond me.
Hawkins' performance is the only thing that makes this remotely watchable. She is great and insanely cute. She never crosses that line over to "too cute," though, and she very easily could have.
There are scenes that worked in this (the flamenco dance scene, the rather touching scene dealing with a young boy being beaten by his mother's boyfriend), but they never formed anything cohesive. There was no underlying storyline...no arc to follow.
The RyMickey Rating: C-
So when I said "as long as your fine with a movie being about absolutely nothing at all, you'll like it" and you said "that's what I'm expecting" you really meant "I'm not expecting what the movie really is."
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I guess I was expecting some type of story...but there was nothing there except a great performance.
ReplyDeleteI thought maybe she'd have a character arc or something...but nothing...