Category: Directed by Rebecca Miller
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The Private Lives of Pippa Lee is a narrated character study. Protagonist Robin Wright is talking herself through her life while the film observes her, seeing where she’s gained the perspective of time and where she hasn’t. The film starts in the present, with Wright and husband Alan Arkin having just moved to a retirement…
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Personal Velocity: Three Portraits. Writer and director Miller (adapting her own collection of short stories) ties together three very different stories, each with its own structure, each with its own narrative approach. Velocity is short too–under ninety minutes–so Miller is fast to establish her protagonists. The biggest disconnect, of course, is the narration; John Ventimiglia…
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Not good drama has Daniel Day-Lewis a hippie widower living on an island with teenage daughter Camilla Belle; they’re the only people on the island, an abandoned commune. He decides they need a female figure so he moves in girlfriend Catherine Keener and her two sons. Belle doesn’t react well to the new status quo.…
The Stop Button 