Thursday 3 May 2018

Men, Women & Children (2014 Jason Reitman)

Interesting ('thought provoking' says Q) film about how technology has affected everyone for the worse (for balance the script might have included something positive about it), with Jennifer Garner's controlling mother coming off even more malevolent than the Internet. Luckily, humanity prevails, in relationship between Kaitlyn Dever and Ansel Elgort. The way of showing the digital exchanges on the screen is creative, and you can actually read the text for once.

Reitman and Erin Cressida Wilson adapted Chad Kultgen's novel. With Adam Sandler, Rosemarie DeWitt, Judy Greer, Timothée Chalamet, Dean Norris, Elena Kampouris, Olivia Criocchia, J.K. Simmons and Dennis Haysbert. Emma Thompson provides the voiceover, which is perhaps redundant.

Shot by Eric Steelberg, edited by Dana Glauberman, good, ambientish music by Bibio. Reitman's doing something interesting with closed doors.


Ansel Egort, Kaitlyn Dever


Olivia Crocicchia, Judy Greer

The always interesting Reitman's new feature reunites him with Diablo Cody and Charlize Theron, Tully.

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