A movie with beautiful visuals, not particularly likeable characters and you wonder what's the point and what the heck is going on.
But it sticks with you and maybe you watch it again and then you get it and think, what wonderful movie-making and acting.
As an older woman and someone who looks back and doesn't think she was that great a parent, but knows she was doing the best she knew how, I have another perspective today may be different than younger viewers.
She's that frumpy, single middle-aged lady that people see (or look through; don't see), thinking, oh she's a sweet, harmless spinster and never seeing the young woman she was. That she had been a sexy, horny young woman who was saddled with demanding kids and demanding husband and demanding careers. Someone who wanted just a little piece of life for herself. But you really can't have it all can you? No, not really. Especially women.
So Nina is her. Nina who loves her daughter (but maybe not so much the dangerous and demanding smothering would "slit my throat" if he knew husband.) She, too, wants to grab a moment, of life for herself.
It's an odd tale and the protagonist is an odd and prickly duck. It's a tale told in an odd way, to be sure.
There's a lot of suspense in this movie and you think at any moment when she's alone walking on the dark streets that something will happen to her.
Was anything resolved?
But it sticks with you and maybe you watch it again and then you get it and think, what wonderful movie-making and acting.
As an older woman and someone who looks back and doesn't think she was that great a parent, but knows she was doing the best she knew how, I have another perspective today may be different than younger viewers.
She's that frumpy, single middle-aged lady that people see (or look through; don't see), thinking, oh she's a sweet, harmless spinster and never seeing the young woman she was. That she had been a sexy, horny young woman who was saddled with demanding kids and demanding husband and demanding careers. Someone who wanted just a little piece of life for herself. But you really can't have it all can you? No, not really. Especially women.
So Nina is her. Nina who loves her daughter (but maybe not so much the dangerous and demanding smothering would "slit my throat" if he knew husband.) She, too, wants to grab a moment, of life for herself.
It's an odd tale and the protagonist is an odd and prickly duck. It's a tale told in an odd way, to be sure.
There's a lot of suspense in this movie and you think at any moment when she's alone walking on the dark streets that something will happen to her.
Was anything resolved?