Blue Valentine (Cianfrance, 2010): Prince Charles Cinema, 8.45pm
This superbly acted, heartbreaking movie is showing from a 35mm print.Chicago Reader review:
Michelle
Williams and Ryan Gosling tear up the screen as mismatched lovers,
shown in alternating sequences as a giddy young couple forging a
much-compromised emotional bond on their earliest dates and then years
later as bitterly divided spouses with a young daughter. They're just
getting by on his wages as a boozy house painter and hers as a nurse,
and his close, intuitive relationship with the little girl seems to be
the only glue holding it all together. In a desperate move, husband and
wife retreat for a romantic evening alone in a crummy hotel with theme
rooms; theirs is the "future room," a garish space-age pad, and—wouldn’t
you know it?—the future arrives. The performances are so gripping that
the movie works despite its diagrammatic structure, which focuses on
ironic rhymes between past and present and omits the entirety of the
couple’s marriage.
JR Jones
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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