Tag: Meryl Streep

“The Post”–High Stakes

Written by diana on January 26, 2018. Posted in movie reviews, Unhealed Wound. 3 Comments on “The Post”–High Stakes

Perhaps no other film this year captures two important political moments of our time: the issue of fake news and “me too”, the invisibility of women’s voices, until they were not. The Post is high-stakes filmmaking. Released this month, The Post is already receiving wide-ranging, intensely opposing reviews. The Post opens with a scene of an American military analyst, Daniel Ellsberg shocked by the depths of continued deceit in hiding the loss of American lives in the Vietnam War, under four successive presidents (Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson). Ellsberg photocopies...

“Suffragette”—Suffering for the Right to Vote

Written by diana on June 3, 2016. Posted in movie reviews. 1 Comment on “Suffragette”—Suffering for the Right to Vote

This 2015 film about women fighting for the right to vote in England tackles an almost forgotten but nevertheless compelling struggle for women and men alike. Don’t take that right for granted. The suffragette movement in England has received less cinematic attention than in the US [2004 film “Iron Jawed Angels” about the American suffragette Alice Paul] until now, with the release of Suffragette. Suffragette opens outside a London laundry in 1912, where 24-year-old Maud Watts (the talented Carey Mulligan) has worked in squalid conditions as a laundress since she was a child. While delivering...

“August: Osage County”– Family Secrets and Lies

Written by diana on January 29, 2014. Posted in movie reviews. 3 Comments on “August: Osage County”– Family Secrets and Lies

“August: Osage County”, the Tracy Lett’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway play, has been released as an Academy-Award nominated movie starring the incomparable Meryl Streep and an affecting Julia Roberts, together with a stunning supporting cast. The story is a disquieting look at the dysfunctionality of an American family with secrets and lies that keep coming and coming, when the viewer least expects them. “August” opens in Osage County, Oklahoma, with an alcoholic academic, Beverly (the superb Sam Shephard), who likes to quote TS Eliot, interviewing a young Native American woman...

“Hope Springs”…Eternal: Senior Sex Anyone?

Written by diana on September 16, 2012. Posted in movie reviews, Unhealed Wound. 5 Comments on “Hope Springs”…Eternal: Senior Sex Anyone?

Don’t be fooled by the trailers that depict this as a rom-com. A poignant portrayal of two seniors who have drifted apart, not only as empty nesters, “Hope Springs” reveals a hollowed-out existence between an aging husband and wife. In the opening scenes, we see Kay (Meryl Streep) and Arnold (Tommy Lee Jones) getting ready to go to bed…in separate rooms. Their sex life has virtually ended. Rapidly growing moribund, their thirty-one year-old marriage needs professional help. Arnold, the clueless accountant who has rigid habits his wife abhors, thinks there isn’t...

“The Iron Lady” — Meryl Streep Nails It

Written by diana on January 21, 2012. Posted in movie reviews, Unhealed Wound. 5 Comments on “The Iron Lady” — Meryl Streep Nails It

Winner of the best actor 2012 Golden Globe for her stunning performance in “The Iron Lady”, Meryl Streep plays Margaret Thatcher, the iconic Prime Minister second only to Winston Churchill in power and impact on Great Britain. “The Iron Lady” is, at times, an exceptional meditation on old age and it is, once more, a virtuoso performance by the genius that is Meryl Streep. First and foremost, however, “The Iron Lady” is a portrait of Thatcher as a woman whose tremendous sacrifices to family and identity were viewed, both by her and by her advisors, as necessary in order...