![]() The filmmakers-it’s worth noting that this is a movie whose behind-the-camera creative team is almost entirely female-enact a strange but ultimately successful balancing act the tension as the trio awaits the DNA test that will reveal if Nancy is indeed Brooke has a pall of dread over it. He’s also allergic to cats, which makes the presence of Nancy’s beast a sticking point and eventually a plot point. One is more accepting than the other Ellen is practically ready to make Nancy family as soon as she moves in, while Leo, tiptoeing around his wife’s expectations and clear fragility, is more skeptical. Cameron and Buscemi, on the other hand, are warm, friendly, accepting. As played by Riseborough, Nancy has a quiet, wide-eyed intensity that’s just this side of scary. Including just what Nancy’s intentions are. Choe’s “opening up,” on the other hand, signifies just that and keeps the audience suspended-there are a lot of questions to come. Dolan’s trick was to remind the audience who’s boss, a typically obnoxious move by a typically obnoxious filmmaker. In the Xavier Dolan movie “ Mommy,” the director kept most of the movie in a narrow aspect ratio except for one scene set to an Oasis song in which the movie goes very wide, then shrinks down again. The frame widens, and the rest of the movie plays out in a standard 1.85 format. She packs a few clothes and the only object of meaning left to her-of course it’s her cat.Īround this time, unnoticeably, the movie literally opens up. Nancy calls the couple’s home, speaks to a shocked and initially put-off Ellen, but talks her way into a visit. The “adult” Brooke does indeed look an awful lot like Nancy. When a simulated picture of what girl, Brooke, would look like today, is put on screen, Nancy is overwhelmed. Watching the report, Nancy is transfixed. They go on television to promote a scholarship they set up in her name. Smith Cameron and Steve Buscemi, are a couple of kind, cozy academics who, 30 years before, lost their five-year-old daughter. After her mother dies, Nancy gets it into her head that she could instead be very good news for a bereaved couple a few hours’ drive away.Įllen and Leo, played by J. ![]() ![]() In her own little corner Nancy can’t, or at least doesn’t, do a whole lot of damage, but you get the sense that she could be very bad news for someone. This ruse has consequences when they meet again by happenstance. Through this guise, she connects with and meets a bereaved father ( John Leguizamo) and fools him into thinking she is once again pregnant. But she also keeps a blog, written under an assumed name, concocting tales concerning the birth and death of a child. Her glove compartment is filled with short-story rejection letters, the latest one from The Paris Review, showing she aims pretty high at least. Nancy’s imaginative life is pretty active. ![]()
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