The biggest problem with the film is its script, it’s truly awful. That may be the only thing the film succeeds in on purpose. They also try to tackle racism among two of the characters for some reason it doesn’t add anything to the film at all and only serves to make the audience uncomfortable. The problem with this is that the film doesn’t have the time to flesh these plot details out to make them matter and the audience care.
The father (Gael Garcia Bernal), is cold to his wife and extremely warm to his children, making his wife look inattentive to her children in comparison. The parents in the previously mentioned main family are on the verge of divorce for various reasons. The film also tries to do a bit too much with its paper thin characters.
#OLD MOVIE MOVIE#
None of these characters are interesting or worth caring about, which makes it really awkward when the movie wants you to care about them in a dramatic moment or a death scene. Alex Wolff’s character, Trent, is the know-it-all kid cliché you’ve seen in a thousand other films, just aged up because of the central conflict of the film. Ken Leung, a typically great character actor, is relegated to being the husband of another mostly inconsequential character played by Nikki Amuka-Bird. Her husband, a doctor who happens to be not-so-subtly racist, is played by Rufus Sewell. Abbey Lee plays a self-obsessed and rude mother. The rest of the characters range from entirely unimportant to blatant caricatures. Even with her solid performance, her New Zealander accent often slips through in what is supposed to be a character from Philadelphia. Thomasin McKenzie, who plays Vicky Krieps’ daughter, is the only actor in the entire film who gives a consistent believable performance. The same can be said for most of the others in this cast. Vicky Krieps, who plays the main family’s mother in the film, has been fantastic in other films such as Phantom Thread, but in this film her performance is truly painful to watch at times. The characters of the film are all awful and completely forgettable, regardless of the quality of the actors playing them.
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