Told from the male perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.
Director:
Ned Benson
Stars:
Jessica Chastain,
Viola Davis,
James McAvoy
Told from the female perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.
Director:
Ned Benson
Stars:
Jessica Chastain,
Nina Arianda,
Viola Davis
Over the course of a midsummer night in Fermanagh in 1890, an unsettled daughter of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy encourages her father's valet to seduce her.
Director:
Liv Ullmann
Stars:
Jessica Chastain,
Colin Farrell,
Samantha Morton
A drama about the awakening of the painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.
In Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer; Frank Troy, a reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor.
Director:
Thomas Vinterberg
Stars:
Carey Mulligan,
Matthias Schoenaerts,
Michael Sheen
A veteran actress comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself when she agrees to take part in a revival of the play that launched her career 20 years earlier.
Director:
Olivier Assayas
Stars:
Juliette Binoche,
Kristen Stewart,
Chloë Grace Moretz
In the throes of a quarter-life crisis, Megan panics when her boyfriend proposes, then, taking an opportunity to escape for a week, hides out in the home of her new friend, 16-year-old Annika, who lives with her world-weary single dad.
Director:
Lynn Shelton
Stars:
Keira Knightley,
Chloë Grace Moretz,
Sam Rockwell
Jessica Chastain said about filming love scenes with her co-star James McAvoy: "I actually had trouble keeping a straight face! He is very funny". See more »
Conor Ludlow (James McAvoy) and Eleanor Rigby (Jessica Chastain) are a married NYC couple who has suffered a devastating lost. His restaurant is failing. She struggles and goes back to school taking Professor Friedman (Viola Davis)'s class. Her family Mary Rigby (Isabelle Huppert), Julian Rigby (William Hurt) and Katy Rigby (Jess Weixler) tries to help. She got her name from the Beatles song since her parents met waiting for a rumored Beatles show.
The acting is fine. The story is quietly poetic. I need more consistent rage. This is a lot of quiet sadness. Also it feels too disjointed and manufactured. Some of it is probably the name. It's kind of annoying. Anybody with that name would call herself Elle or something else. Part of it is the fact that this is probably better as two separate movies. I just keep wanting for the two characters to get together and cry it out. It's a bit too precious with saying out loud what the big lost was. The whole thing needs more gritty blow up. These characters need to stop dancing around the subject. It's not as dramatic.
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Conor Ludlow (James McAvoy) and Eleanor Rigby (Jessica Chastain) are a married NYC couple who has suffered a devastating lost. His restaurant is failing. She struggles and goes back to school taking Professor Friedman (Viola Davis)'s class. Her family Mary Rigby (Isabelle Huppert), Julian Rigby (William Hurt) and Katy Rigby (Jess Weixler) tries to help. She got her name from the Beatles song since her parents met waiting for a rumored Beatles show.
The acting is fine. The story is quietly poetic. I need more consistent rage. This is a lot of quiet sadness. Also it feels too disjointed and manufactured. Some of it is probably the name. It's kind of annoying. Anybody with that name would call herself Elle or something else. Part of it is the fact that this is probably better as two separate movies. I just keep wanting for the two characters to get together and cry it out. It's a bit too precious with saying out loud what the big lost was. The whole thing needs more gritty blow up. These characters need to stop dancing around the subject. It's not as dramatic.