Saturday, February 2, 2013

Everything Put Together

Radha Mitchell

Odd low-budget film apparently about the shallowness and superficiality of modern suburban life.

Upper-middle couple are having a baby. All their friends coo and aww. Baby dies SIDS. Friends all abandon them cold. Mom's mom never shows up. Mom forced to deal with her personal tragedy alone in her expensive house. She announces (false?) new pregnancy. Friends welcome her back as if nothing ever happened. The end.

Strong lead performance but the film shaded too far into melodrama to really click. This was either stupidly cynical or seen through the eyes of someone who experienced something like this.

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