Merry Wives distills what legacy we need most from Shakespeare now and what art we need most from each other.
Marielle Heller takes a script that many filmmakers would turn into cringe-inducing treacle and interrogates the sentimental trappings.
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It takes the aesthetic premise of Louie, in which the world around its protagonist matches his passive, fatalistic outlook, to its logical extreme.
“Elevator Part 3” finds Louie displaying darker facets of his personality.
Louie is akin to Seinfeld in its view of a privileged life constantly swayed by the particulars of Manhattan geography.
Annie Howell and Lisa Robinson’s Small, Beautifully Moving Parts is one of those movies.