Moms’ Intuition
(director: Benoit Delhomme screenwriter: Sarah Conradt-Kroehler, primarily based on a novel by Barbara Abel and the film Duelles directed by Olivier Masset-Depasse cinematographer: Benoit Delhomme editor: Juliette Welfling songs: Anne Nikitin solid: Anne Hathaway (Celine), Jessica Chastain (Alice), Eamon Patrick O’Connor (Theo), Anders Danielsen Lie (Simon), Josh Charles (Darren), Baylen D. Bielitz (Max), Caroline Lagerfelt (Jean) Runtime: 94 MPAA Rating: NR producers: Jacques-Henri Bronckart, Kelly Carmichael, Jessica Chastain, Paul Nelson Neon 2024)
“To a fault, it pays homage to a Hitchcockian-model suspense thriller.”
“Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz
A humorless and major-handed maternal psycho-drama established in the unnamed American suburbs in the 1960s. It’s the disappointing directorial debut of the esteemed French cinematographer-turned-director Benoit Delhomme. The clunky screenplay, the movie’s most grievous fault amid its several faults, is by author Sarah Conradt-Kroehler. It’s a remake of the 2012 French-language thriller “Behind the Detest” and of the 2018 Belgian movie, “Duelles” (directed by Olivier Masset-Depasse). It’s centered on a novel by Barbara Abel. To a fault, it pays homage to a Hitchcockian-design and style suspense thriller. Only its images continues to be splendid.
The wealthy, properly-groomed and perfectly-mannered housewives, Celine (Anne Hathaway), in Jackie Kennedy dress, and Alice (Jessica Chastain) in a Kim Novak hair-do from Vertigo, are greatest close friends and following doorway neighbors. Each has a commuter husband (Celine’s pharmaceutical salesman hubby is played by Josh Charles, Alice’s uninteresting hubby is played by the newspaperman Anders Danielsen Lie), and every has a 9-year-old son – Celine’s son is Max (Baylen D. Bielitz) and Alice’s son is Theo (Patrick O’Connor). Also every single woman is stuffed with grief from the earlier–with Alice’s getting psychological wellness challenges, even though Celine is the additional cheerful of the two.
But their friendship will be wrecked by tragedy more than a freak incident of Max slipping to his demise from the balcony of his bed room and Celice blaming it on Alice.
The well-costumed girls kvetch about anything for the very first two acts and in the third act items come with each other, as Celine tries to acclimate to culture in excess of her loss and Alice suffers from guilt pangs more than seeking to give her tedious hubby and son a photo-great lifetime.
The story is too silly to be considered and too languid to be entertaining. It could have used a Groucho-like character to blow some cigar smoke into the faces of the snooty pals.
REVIEWED ON 4/16/2024 Quality: C+