POEMS

Movie review
bricolage from The Washington Post  


Throughout, there is a credible chemistry
as they travel to her home near the coast,
and a measured melodrama, by which the film
suggests that for all its foregone conclusions
this time we have the advantage of hindsight: 

We can observe, firsthand, events from years ago:
the interpreter who saved more than one life;
the season of remarkable flight; the application
of glitter; the humbled prodigal returning —
all parts of a self, invisibly coming together.

This debut, based on real life experience,
presents a small, but encompassing portrait
by virtue of the larger theme in this quiet,
unflinching story: it is not magic —
but how life felt in a certain time and place.

To an extent, it’s also about ever exploring
the same life — now seeing your father’s courage
fully, your own slowness to learn — and it will
barely matter if you can’t easily discern all
that is happening at first. Now in theaters.


Bricolage sourced from
this article in The Washington Post
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