Tag: The Savages
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Streaming: One Fine Morning and the best films about children parenting their parents
Mia Hansen-Løve’s bittersweet 2022 release, starring Léa Seydoux as a woman coping with the failing mind of her father, joins a select group of films exploring this most tender of life role reversals, from The Savages to Eat Drink Man WomanFrench director Mia Hansen-Løve has a knack for making unimpeachably delicate films about emotionally clobbering…
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‘Private Life’ Trailer: Filmmaker Tamara Jenkins Returns After A Decade Away With A Deeply Personal Film
In her decades-spanning but only sporadically fruitful career, Tamara Jenkins has aptly demonstrated that she’s not only willing to address the most heartbreaking of mundanities with humor and compassion, but she’ll stick it out to do so as well. “Dementia and infertility aren’t sexy at pitch meetings,” the writer-director admitted to IndieWire back in January,…
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‘Private Life’ Trailer: Paul Giamatti and Kathryn Hahn Lead Netflix’s Darkly Comic Fertility Saga
Given their tendencies to play neurotic misanthropes, it’s a wonder Kathryn Hahn and Paul Giamatti have never played opposite each other before. The filmmaker Tamara Jenkins seems to always land brilliant cast; the writer and director of 2007’s “The Savages” starred Laura Linney and the late, great Philip Seymour Hoffman as a pair of siblings…