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“"What do you want?”
"I have what I want.“
2018 Movie Challenge | Week 24 Theme: Films Directed by Women [1/?]
Hateship Loveship (2013)
Plot: A wild teenage girl orchestrates a romance between her nanny and her father, who is a recovering addict.
Starring: Kristen Wiig, Guy Pearce, Hailee Steinfeld, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Sami Gayle, Christine Lahti & Nick Nolte
Director: Liza Johnson
Movie
I’ve seen people say this is their favorite Kristen Wiig performance & I was curious why so I had to watch. I also liked the name for some reason. lol I definitely get why people like her in this. It’s definitely the most restrained I have ever seen Kristen Wiig in a movie & that’s not a bad thing. It shows that she’s versatile. Everyone knows she can be wildly outlandish with her comedic characters. That’s no surprise. I always liked her on SNL & was glad to see her branching out when she really started making movies. She’s shown she can do drama. She’s also got a wonderful cast alongside her in this so that pulled me in. (Hailee!!) I will say, the movie itself isn’t exactly special for me. Yeah I’m not saying it’s great. I do think though that if you’re a fan of Kristen & wanna see a different side to her, this is worth a watch. Same goes for The Skeleton Twins (her & Bill Hader are wonderful together)
I love Kristen Wiig in all her weird and nice little indie films.
Just for me
Hateship Loveship (2014)
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage - Alice Munro
Summary: A collection of short stories centering on troubled marriages and odd love stories.
Quote: “What made more sense was that the bargain she was bound to was to go on living as she had been doing. The bargain was already in force. To accept what had happened and be clear about what would happen. Days and years and feelings much the same, except the children would grow up, and there might be one or two more of them and they too would grow up, and she and Brendan would grow older and then old.”
My rating: 5.0/5.0 Goodreads: 4.0/5.0
Review: A masterful collection.The plots occur mostly within the narrators’ heads but the long stretches between dialogue and action don’t feel weighty. Munro is always leading the reader somewhere, though sometimes with an imperceptible hand. The stories fold into each other, unrelated by plot but somehow similar in tone. There are few moments of high drama but the potential for it lurks at the edges, a tension always left unreleased. The stories are satisfying without being wrapped up neatly. My favorite stories were “Post and Beam” and “Nettles”, both of which dealt with unfulfilled love stories.
To watch: Hateship Loveship dir. Liza Johnson. Not a perfect adaptation of the titular story of the collection, but it hits a lot of the same notes.
Hateship, Loveship (2013)
