American filmmaker Richard Linklater has long been one of the best-known writers and filmmakers in terms of "authored and executed" ideas and the most original since the early 1990s.
From Slacker 1990, D&C 1993, School of Rock 2003 to Boyhood 2014 and Last Flag Flying 2017, and don't forget about the wonderful Beaufort trilogy 1995/2004 / 2013. If you don't like a movie for this Man you will like at least part of it except here in this movie.
Australian actor Cate Blanchett is one of the strongest Hollywood stars of the time, and Oscar has won the best actress in Woody Allen's film "Blue Jasmine." But here things don't seem to be going well.
'Where'd You Go Bernadette' is filled with intolerable and turbulent characters, and will easily be recognized as the worst of Lenkletter's films and one of the most disappointing this year.
Narcissistic Engineers
Attempts of comedy are unsuccessful, and the scenes of turning emotion fabricated and intercalated. If you live next to an annoying neighbor or encounter a chattering traveler on a long flight, this is the most accurate description of this work.
The film is based on a 2012 novel with the same title by Maria Simple, Blanchett starring: Bernadette Fox, an architect and mother of a teenage daughter. Bernadette hates getting out of the house, quarreling with other mothers at her daughter's school, and despising people in general because everyone in her eyes is stupid, bad and empty. No wonder the narcissistic personality is troubled!
We know in a video clip from YouTube (interviews with former Bernadette colleagues, known as Steve Zan, Megan Mulally, Lawrence Fishburn and others), we know that Bernadette was one of the best architects in the world and won awards, but when A wealthy British TV producer has decided to buy Bernadette's first house to demolish it and use the ground for parking. Bernadette suffered a nervous breakdown and retired from her 20-year career.
In fact, we did not understand why Bernadette's background story was crammed into that long documentary, which comes more than half an hour after the film's debut, which appeared to be the remnants of a previous film. The passage is seen only in one context: a lazy text tool for the abbreviation of Bernadette's past which once he finishes jumps in your mind the question: if the text is recurring in the narrative of the beginning of the story, does Bernadette matter to the rest of the film?
Bernadette has moved to a dilapidated house and is now dragging her feet around to speak to Mangula, or so her name is her electronic help on the tablet. Bernadette speaks harshly with her husband Elgin (Billy Crodb), who sold his Animation company to Microsoft, who spends his days and nights at work. And do not blame it! Bernadette is also blunt with her neighbor Audrey (Christine Wigg).
Disappearance .. and glitch
The only case in which Bernadette reflects kindness and warmth is with her 15-year-old daughter Beye (Emma Nelson), whose mother exchanged love, which came after four failed pregnancy attempts. Despite this love, the situation is generally uncomfortable as Bernadette does not give her daughter an outlet, and remains attached to her.
It turns out that Bernadette is mentally ill, and her husband is forced to bring in a psychiatrist (Judy Greer). Bernadette disappears and moves to Antarctica (do not ask why) The purpose of the disappearance is to generate some kind of sympathy for her character, but there is something to extinguish this sympathy because of an imbalance in her incomplete character, and because we do not care!
The journey seems to be from another film, and her family's going to her is totally unconvincing, simply because once she proves that this woman is mentally ill, the best solution is to isolate her daughter and her husband and move them away until she gets treatment.
Lenkleiter wrote the text in collaboration with Holly Gent and Vince Palmo, and may have tried to convey the essence of the novel to the cinema, but there remains a terrible flaw either in the citation process or in the editing room. Note that the original duration of the film exceeded two hours, and was delayed from May to August, and reduced its duration to 105 minutes.
The film is narrated from Bee's point of view, but when Bernadette's letters are brought to the screen, Lencliter faces challenges and cannot overcome them. This is where Bernadette's double character becomes flawed, as if we were faced with two versions of it: the past version from Pye's point of view and the copy of the present from the point of view of Bernadette herself. The second version of Bernadette looks better than the first, and probably deserves more sympathy.
As for the real crisis in her life, which has been absent for 20 years, the film merely explained it without addressing it thoroughly or extensively. Although it is difficult to say, it seems that the cut-off part of the film was part of the Antarctic journey.
There is a part about an FBI officer entering Bernadette's house to tell her that Mangula's electronic assistance was designed by a Russian gang to steal her personal data. The film does not know how to deal with the part, and it also looks from another film, probably about Ross's spies!
This film is a stumbling block in the career of a talented and talented filmmaker like the Texas Texan Richard Linklater. This film is messy and full of chatter and is not worth watching.
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Blanchett's performance is boring, she does nothing but an unhelpful narcissistic chatter, but Nelson's performance was remarkable in her first film. The point of view of the film is unclear to the father whether his absence from Bernadette was true or condemned, but often the film does not want to be condemned, or there is another flaw in the text.
2012
The year the novel, based on Maria Simple, appeared.
If this is the beginning of the end of the career of a talented and accomplished filmmaker like Texan Richard Lencletter, retiring at the top is the best solution.