☆☆☆☆
In its quiet specificity, this small movie about a long-married couple coping with illness elicits a warm, compassionate empathy, so by the end it is about any two people who come to sad and difficult realizations about life and happiness.
Joan (Lesley Manville) and Tom (Liam Neeson) have, it's revealed, already survived loss, and learned how to navigate around mortality. But one morning, it rears its head again as Joan discovers a lump in her breast. On one level Ordinary Love is about how they both struggle with the devastating effects of cancer. But what's really magnificent about Ordinary Love is how it shows people whose commitment is tested, and how their relationship evolves to take on the shape of their challenges.
Ordinary Love watches Joan and Tom eat together, walk together, shop together, bicker together, and sometimes love together so fiercely that it looks like hate, or maybe it's the other way around, and then they wake up and have to do it all over again. It's a rare depiction of marriage, and in its gentle way may be even more honest than the intense drama of Marriage Story.
Manville is magnetic, bringing warmth, grace and fragility to this carefully observed woman. Neeson is equally strong and both are beautifully understated as the turns in directions both wholly anticipated and, often, wonderfully not. Ordinary Love, as the title implies, is not looking to break new ground, but rather to see a common world in an uncommonly compassionate light.
Viewed Feb. 21, 2020 -- AMC Burbank 8
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Joan (Lesley Manville) and Tom (Liam Neeson) have, it's revealed, already survived loss, and learned how to navigate around mortality. But one morning, it rears its head again as Joan discovers a lump in her breast. On one level Ordinary Love is about how they both struggle with the devastating effects of cancer. But what's really magnificent about Ordinary Love is how it shows people whose commitment is tested, and how their relationship evolves to take on the shape of their challenges.
Ordinary Love watches Joan and Tom eat together, walk together, shop together, bicker together, and sometimes love together so fiercely that it looks like hate, or maybe it's the other way around, and then they wake up and have to do it all over again. It's a rare depiction of marriage, and in its gentle way may be even more honest than the intense drama of Marriage Story.
Manville is magnetic, bringing warmth, grace and fragility to this carefully observed woman. Neeson is equally strong and both are beautifully understated as the turns in directions both wholly anticipated and, often, wonderfully not. Ordinary Love, as the title implies, is not looking to break new ground, but rather to see a common world in an uncommonly compassionate light.
Viewed Feb. 21, 2020 -- AMC Burbank 8
1920
A quiet lovely and captivating movie. the director did a great work with fantastic acting from all the actors. The maturity, calmness and professional sense of character's interpretation of Liam gives the movies a strong cover. The wife too did fantastically well. Getting back to ...
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