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Roz and Lil are known from small and intense friendship has never wavered. Their lives, despite being so close, have ended very differently. please mum A married, then divorced. The other, also married and then widowed. A rich thanks to its business in sportswear shops. The other, middle class teacher. Each with one child. One, released and daring. The other, timid and fearful. When they are mature and their children are, in the words of Lessing, please mum ephebes are released accidentally wanting a sexual and loving relationship with the child after the other. It is not incestuous but it seems. They do not say, but feel so.
Doris Lessing, for its extensive bibliography and the number of awards won, including the Nobel, please mum has been and will be very appealing to film author. It may not all his work is worthy of praise, one of the drawbacks of writing compulsively, but so not worth the mediocre little luck with adaptations they have given different writers and directors. Among the most notorious, Memoirs of a Survivor (1981) will go down in history thanks to one of the saddest soundtracks that may suffer in addition to the set was cumbersome, slow and heavy to exhaustion. The starting material before us on this occasion, Grandmas, she says the author, is based on a story that came to his ears through a third person. That aside, when we read the premise on which the account is held first thing that comes to mind is that its author has risked much to bring something as implausible. That's what we know before you start reading the story itself, if the summary and the things that we could fill gird about ten pages, and yet it stretches to Lessing hundred.
Starting from the end and on the basis of analyzing and psychoanalyzing and loving relationships, the story becomes a kind of dress rehearsal please mum novella. Lessing's ability to describe in great detail the actions is staggering. Not only does it for the pleasure of showing please mum off. It is rather a way to imitate the film slowed down to emphasize the seriousness or importance of a moment or a particular act. And for that purpose, from time to time, describe every little movement, every nuance in the face and each item of property adjacent please mum to or intended to underscore the scene. Sometimes, perhaps, it seems that gravity fills too many pages. You can more or less like this way of narrating, but Lessing makes classy, but that does not mean that the style can get to be tiresome in thicker novels, and in this case it is inevitable to realize that this makes a story into a novella, on the other hand, get started without end where we see it coming, which is much harder than it looks.
The film translation Grandmothers, Two Mothers, please mum is directed by the cold, routine, very French and, thanks to the highly recommended please mum Nettoyage à sec, sobrevaloradísima Anne Fontaine (Coco avant Chanel, please mum Nathalie X, How I Killed My Father) , the film is full of good starting points and failed results. Two Mothers, which is where we talk now contains its usual mistakes. The first is in the script, in which, all told, not participating Fontaine, starting with a pair of didactic dialogues that put us in a bad mood from the first minute. The second is the mounting please mum vulgar, typical of a telefilm series B, which is also noted in the early going with a couple of flashback and flashforward really awkward and clumsy. The third is the cast. In the case of the two male protagonists (James Frecheville and Xavier Samuel), it is inevitable not blame her almost absolute interpretive coma, in part because of a script that does not attempt to give depth to their characters. For Frecheville, please mum wonder it's the same actor who starred in Animal Kingdom. The protagonists mother (Naomi Watts and Robin Wright) give the size-as expected-but the chemistry between them is non-existent, thanks to a script and a direction that emphasize visual aseptic mixing with didactic please mum dialogue. Interestingly, when not share up everything works better. And so a little inexplicable, the best character is presented of a child, the husband of one of the characters played by Ben Mendelsohn. That the film is well shot and the images are pleasing to the eye is not enough to save the whole. As a result, when we reach half the footage we move into the seat, uncomfortable and bored by the predictability of the set, we get the phone to verify the origin of the last vibrations, we take a nap and gradually we will give equal how the roost-end bad because it can only end c