A middle aged women goes back to uni. This isn't the best plot in the world but it might have worked. Only the stakes are so low - in the 90s surely it would be cool in posh suburbs for a widow to go back to uni, not a drama? (Maybe if the story had been set in the 60s.) And uni is so big - mum isn't going to run into her son a lot. And art degrees are really easy - and art tutors not scary. Writer-director Mark Lamprell tries to compensate by offering a sort of magical realism portrait of university (lots of colours and dancing bands) which is not quite convincing but is still the most unique thing about the film. Rose Byrne is pretty enough as the love interest - Lamprell gets her to show the side of her boob a few times so if you're into Rose Byrne try this out.
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Movie review - "My Mother Frank" (2000) **
A middle aged women goes back to uni. This isn't the best plot in the world but it might have worked. Only the stakes are so low - in the 90s surely it would be cool in posh suburbs for a widow to go back to uni, not a drama? (Maybe if the story had been set in the 60s.) And uni is so big - mum isn't going to run into her son a lot. And art degrees are really easy - and art tutors not scary. Writer-director Mark Lamprell tries to compensate by offering a sort of magical realism portrait of university (lots of colours and dancing bands) which is not quite convincing but is still the most unique thing about the film. Rose Byrne is pretty enough as the love interest - Lamprell gets her to show the side of her boob a few times so if you're into Rose Byrne try this out.
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