Réalisation:
Jodie MarkellPhotographie:
Giles NuttgensMusique:
Mark OrtonActeurs·trices:
Chris Evans, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ellen Burstyn, Ann-Margret, Zach Grenier, Jessica Ann Collins, Will Patton, Mamie Gummer, Rhoda Griffis (plus)Résumés(1)
The story of Fisher Willow, a Memphis débutante daughter of a plantation owner with a distaste for narrow-minded people and a penchant for shocking and insulting those around her. After returning from studies overseas, Fisher falls in love with Jimmy, the down-and-out son of an alcoholic father and an insane mother who works at a store on her family's plantation. She tries to pass him off as an upper-class suitor to appease the spinster aunt who controls her family's fortune, but when she loses a diamond, it places their tenuous relationship in further jeopardy. (texte officiel du distributeur)
(plus)Critiques (1)
The effort to create an impressive drama is transparent from the first minutes, the upper-class atmosphere is beautified in a way that is perhaps a bit forced, and everything here is good, yet at the same time too shallow and unoffending. At some points I can understand the characters, but in the next they act in line with an overly desirous script. And that half-heartedness also applies to the ensemble cast: Bryce Dallas Howard gives it her all, but the script occasionally gives her the obviously oerous task of 'lighting up the whole room", and likewise Chris Evans manages some things well, but in purely dramatic roles, he sometimes shows a slight stiffness. In short, a conflicted film in every aspect, and consequently an easily forgettable one.
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