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I'm writing this 5 months after having watched this movie and even though I remember liking it, all I can say now is that it is utterly forgettable.

3 months 1 week ago

I quite liked Maggie's Plan by Rebecca Miller, but I'd never heard of The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, an adaptation of her own novel. A great cast inhabits this drama about a publisher's wife who plays it close to the vest, but will reveal, to us the audience, who she is and who she used to be. Robin Wright plays the current-day Pippa, and Blake Lively Pippa as a teenager and young adult, and both are good, though of course, it's on Wright to play all the complexity of a woman who used to be that girl, and who today is teetering on the edge of marital and nervous collapse. It's about transitioning between selves, but never being able to escape the PREVIOUS self. The script is psychologically sound, and the characters intriguing, among them Winona Ryder as a complete wreck (Pippa's future if she's not careful), Alan Arkin as Pippa's older and ever more distant husband, Julianne Moore as her aunt's dangerous girlfriend, the always impeccable Zoe Kazan as a daughter angry her mother wears a mask, and Keanu Reeves as a neighbor's broken son, speaking with a subtle shaking in his voice. Miller also has some fun with transitions and moments of pure fantasy, which makes for a visually attractive film as well.

4 years 4 months ago

Eduardo Nasi

Amazing casting, powerful scenes, sometimes not brilliant, but always nice.

12 years 9 months ago