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Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2019) Review

Bernadette had sacrficed her creative passions for her family and being a mother to Bee, but will this be what she needs or will it just cause problems considering she hadn’t really left the house after becoming a recluse. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Continue reading Where’d You Go, Bernadette (2019) Review

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Where’d You Go, Bernadette (2019)

If you reach deep into your sympathy hole, you can see what point Where’d You Go, Bernadette is making and you’ll be able to sympathize with its protagonist. Even so, this is a whole lot of “first world problems”. This movie is soooo in love with itself it forgets to show affection towards you.

20 years ago, Bernadette Fox (Cate Blanchett) was an up-and-coming architect, the most promising woman in her field. Flash forward to today and she’s borderline agoraphobic, has no friends besides her daughter, Bee (Emma Nelson), hardly gets any sleep and is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Her husband, Elgin (Billy Crudup), is getting exasperated. Just as he’s about to confront Bernadette… she disappears.

In the movie’s first scene, Bee tells her mother and father she’s received the perfect grades they asked for and has now earned a reward: a family trip to Antarctica. You laugh, thinking her parents would NEVER indulge her request but this isn't that type of comedy. Actually, it isn't much of a comedy at all. Elgin is swimming in money. The family is so financially comfortable Bernadette has been able to become eccentric to the extreme (I’d say dumb, but that’s a word for poor people). Her only problems are the kind none of us can relate to; her neighbor, Audrey (Kristen Wiig) doesn’t like Bernadette or the manor she's living in/renovating, she's haunted by a career which ultimately led to disappointment, and she doesn't want to go on a vacation with her family when staying home and not working is so much easier. You want to sympathize, but come on, woman. You have every tool at your disposal. If you’re not able to get yourself out of this mess, it’s YOUR fault.

While you’re frustrated with Bernadette's inability to get her head on straight, the movie's completely on her side. When Elgin confronts his wife about her irresponsible behavior and the disaster she’s nearly brought upon the family, director Richard Linklater frames him as if he’s the bad guy. He isn’t! - no matter what their daughter says. Even when she takes things to the extreme, it’s all played as if it’s just a funny quirk. As a human being with a brain, you know better. What’s happening here isn’t healthy. You keep waiting for reality to catch up with Bernadette and this movie, for people to get a grip but it sure takes a while. Not even Laurence Fishburne in all his wisdom can save Where'd You Go, Bernadette from losing you completely. He's so not in this movie you wonder why they cast him at all.

Director Richard Linklater, working from an award-winning book by Maria Semple has made a movie none of us can relate to. It takes a long while to get going and when it does... then what? Where’d You Go, Bernadette should be saying something but winds up only disappointing. (Theatrical version on the big screen, August 20, 2019)

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The Missing Linklater.

“Any time I’m on a set with Rick I feel very fortunate.” We talk to the writers behind Richard Linklater’s new missing-person feature film, Where’d You Go, Bernadette?

An adaptation of Maria Semple’s 2012 comedic novel about a reclusive architect who goes missing just before a family trip to Antarctica, Where’d You Go, Bernadette? stars Cate Blanchett in the title role. Bernadette’s daughter Bee (Emma Nelson) sets out on a quest to find her, with Bernadette’s husband Elgie (Billy Crudup). Laurence Fishburne, Judy Greer and Kristen Wiig also star.

Directed by American filmmaking icon (and co-founder of the Austin Film Society) Richard Linklater, the screenplay was co-written with his frequent collaborators (and married couple) Holly Gent Palmo and Vincent Palmo Jr. If their names are not familiar as scriptwriters, that’s because they usually work further behind the scenes for Linklater, and have been since 1993’s Dazed and Confused, when Holly was a production coordinator, and Vince a second second assistant director.

Vince became Linklater’s first AD for the films Bad News Bears, Fast Food Nation, A Scanner Darkly, Before Midnight, Boyhood, Last Flag Flying and Where’d You Go, Bernadette?. Holly co-produced Linklater’s Me and Orson Welles (2008), which she also wrote with Vince.

Reviewing Where’d You Go, Bernadette? on Letterboxd, Tom suggests that after a “generic” opening, the film “slowly starts to show its true colors as the character of Bernadette is unwrapped… it’s a story that is touching and even a bit inspiring for those who aspire to be their own artist in life.” J Oled agrees: “This could’ve been a Hallmark special, but because Linklater generally loves humanity, and is always experimenting, this film is quite watchable, it’s warm, relatable, and modest, and I wasn’t asking for much else.” Melissa, who has read the novel, offers: “If you’re a fan of the book… the movie is starkly different. But if you’re a fan of Linklater… you’re going to love it. Cate Blanchett may be the best actor of the decade.”

We spoke to Holly Gent Palmo and Vincent Palmo Jr. about their collaborative writing process with Linklater, mining their own relationship for inspiration, and making films for the social-media age.

Cate Blanchett as Bernadette and Emma Nelson as Bee.

How you were brought onto the project? Holly Gent Palmo: We have worked with Rick [Linklater] for many years. We first met on Dazed and Confused, where we were on the crew, and we’ve worked on many projects with him. He’s one of our close friends. He was brought onto the project and then we read the book and loved it so he brought us on. We started from scratch, it was all based on the novel.

What did you relate to in the book that made you feel you had the right perspective to take it on? HGP: This is a movie that for me personally is very relatable because it’s about a woman who has really lost herself in motherhood and as much as she loves that journey, she’s also really looking to rediscover her passion of her past creative impulses. I think that’s something that Rick, Vince, and I all can relate to, not only as parents, but also as people trying to do something creative in this world.

Was the book’s author Maria Semple involved at all? HGP: First of all, the novel is fantastic.

Vincent Palmo Jr: Love the book, love the book.

HGP: Maria knows so much about the filmmaking process and has that history herself that she knew that she wanted to hand it off to Rick. She talked to Cate and she talked to Rick but she did not take part in the writing.

Richard Linklater seems like a great writer to collaborate with. What is it about him that makes that operate so well? HGP: With Rick, the way we work is that we talk a lot in the beginning and clearly discuss every aspect of the book. This one was particularly challenging in that it was a modern epistolary novel told in emails and transcripts. It’s not a straight narrative and it’s not told in a linear fashion, necessarily. So we had to sort out the chronology of our story and what would be included.

Screenwriters Holly Gent Palmo and Vincent Palmo Jr. / Photo: Wilson Webb/Annapurna Pictures

It’s the way he works with actors and everyone. It’s a really respectful, really collaborative process where everybody gets to bring to the table their own personal point of view in their own lives. With Rick, we dove into the parts of the novel we liked best and what threads we were going to pick up and carry through.

VP: It was a pretty deep exploration of the novel, of all the different characters and situations. We talked through all that and came to an agreement between the three of us for what we felt said the themes best.

Vincent, you’re also Linklater’s first assistant director, which is an interesting combination of multi-tasking. On set, would you pitch in on the script-side? VP: No, on set as a first AD I’m more concerned about the day’s work and really having everything in place and ready to go so Rick just has to say “action” and “cut”. I don’t talk at all about the script. At that point we’re all dialed in anyway.

When Holly’s around they have their conferences and I’ll be arranging the next set up. I’ve done a lot of things with Rick. I did all twelve years of Boyhood. There’s a shorthand there that I’m intent and focused on each day’s shoot and what’s coming up the next day.

HGP: By the time Rick gets to set, he’s totally prepared and ready. He has his rehearsal process with his actors. Our process is over, he’s very sure of what he wants.

VP: You can’t over-prepare, but we’re very prepared.

HGP: Except maybe in a rare instance in having to negotiate some small change.

VP: Yeah, like in what the weather’s brought or something new at a location, things like that.

Boyhood and Before Midnight are both classics of their decade now. What were those sets like? VP: I’m so happy for Rick [that they’re highly regarded]. Boyhood just stretched on. I remember there were times where we were like, “is somebody in Eastern Europe doing the same thing and it’s going to come out before us?!” We really didn’t know.

To pick it up each year and shoot it on film when all that kind of change [to digital] was in the midst of us shooting… Any time I’m on a set with Rick I feel very fortunate. To see them received in the way they were, it’s really thrilling.

Emma Nelson and Billy Crudup in ‘Where’d You Go, Bernadette?’.

In what ways, if any, did you adapt your style to the talents of Cate Blanchett and the other cast members? HGP: We knew that Cate was interested from the moment that we began. We were always hoping to do justice to her great talent and thinking towards that. To me, there could be no-one better in that role. Cate brings so much to it.

It’s an inspiration to think that no matter what kind of nuanced emotion we write in a scene, she can carry it and do an incredible job. It gives a freedom of inspiration thinking that there’s a possibility that Cate Blanchett can be playing the part.

The book is largely renowned for the way it captures the nuances of Seattle. What types of research did you do for the characters’ occupations and their environments? HGP: Rick did a lot of interesting, in-depth research for Elgie’s technology role and the kind of things he was developing. He talked to a lot of people involved in Microsoft developing those sorts of things, to bring that in the most detailed and up-to-date way.

For architecture, Rick arranged some meetings with some really great architects to go and talk to them about the language they use. As far as Seattle goes, there’s no greater resource for that than the novel itself. Maria really knows that world and has so many funny and interesting outsider opinions about it that I felt it was the perfect way to learn about that.

What did you feel you could bring to the element of marriage when writing as a married couple? HGP: That’s interesting.

VP: That is interesting. Well, we’ve been married for 26 years.

HGP: I do think that all three of us brought in our past relationships and our current relationships to the process. I believe it’s a realistic portrayal of the quest to keep improving your life through self-discovery. It’s a unique story that you don’t really see a lot of.

That whole idea that you can’t ever really know anyone, but that doesn’t mean you can’t try—Rick really loved those words, they’re the opening words of the novel. It’s this idea that the other person is always somewhat unknowable, but you keep trying to get to know each other while you change through the years.

VP: The search continues! You find new things.

HGP: Nothing is more rewarding in life than those close relationships that last decades.

Richard Linklater, Emma Nelson, Cate Blanchett and Billy Crudup at a New York screening earlier this month. / Photo: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP

Do you think it’s difficult to write contemporary films for the social-media age? HGP: It’s fascinating when you see movies and there’s this before-and-after cell phones dividing line, because so many of the great films and their plots would have been so different if everyone was carrying a phone around.

I don’t know if it’s easier, but it is a change in your way of thinking as you realize everyone has a phone in their pocket. I think both [period and contemporary] are fun. Any kind of story or plot that you’re trying to figure out is a really fun and challenging puzzle. I notice in a lot of films they try and get rid of the phone in some way.

What was the film that got you into filmmaking and made you want to be a part of this industry? VP: Oh my gosh, wow. Jeez, that’s a really tough one.

HGP: There’s so many stages to it. There’s the ones you see when you’re a little kid that just blow you over. Those are so bound with light and emotion that you don’t even understand. I remember Apocalypse Now—that was something that blew my mind.

VP: It just kind of builds. I got a degree in journalism and then I ended up working in film so it’s hard to point to just one that really flipped the switch. I don’t know why, but I saw The Sound of Music a bunch of times when I was younger. Maybe it was just easier for my mom to take me and my four siblings out to see it.

‘Where’d You Go, Bernadette?’ is in select US cinemas now.

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Review: 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette'

Review: ‘Where’d You Go, Bernadette’

Where’d You Go, Bernadette | Richard Linklater | August 16, 2019

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Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2019)

Director    Richard Linklater

Screenwriter    Michael H. Weber, Scott Neustadter, Holly Gent Palmo, Vincent Palmo Jr., Richard Linklater (Novel: Maria Semple)

Music    Graham Reynolds, Sam Lipman

Cinematography    Shane F. Kelly

Cast    Cate Blanchett, Kristen Wiig, Billy Crudup, Judy Greer, Laurence Fishburne, Troian Avery Bellisario, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, James Urbaniak, Zoe Chao, Claudia Doumit, Zachary Davis Brown Genre    Comedy. Drama | Abduction / Disappearance. Teen/coming-of-age

Synopsis / Plot    "Where’d You Go, Bernadette" is based on the runaway bestseller about Bernadette Fox, a Seattle woman who had it all - a loving husband and a brilliant daughter. When she unexpectedly disappears, her family sets off on an exciting adventure to solve the mystery of where she might have gone.

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Crítica, Cadê você Bernadette? | Desencaixados

Título: Cadê você Bernadette?

Título Original: Where’d you go Bernadette?

Ano de lançamento: 2019

Duração: 1h45min

Nacionalidade: Estados Unidos

Diretor(a):  Richard Linklater

Roteiro Adaptado:  Richard Linklater, Vincent Palmo Jr., Holly Gent Palmo, Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber

História Original: Maria Semple

Disponível em: Telecine Play

O filme é baseado na obra de Maria Semple de mesmo nome, que foi lançada em 2013 no Brasil pela Companhia das Letras. A autora também trabalhou no filme como produtora. O Enredo aborda temas que estão presentes nas relações modernas atualmente de forma engraçada e sutil, já que a personagem principal, Bernadette, tende a fazer piadas sobre tudo em sua vida. Como várias das adaptações literárias, tem suas falhas, mas tanto a obra quanto a adaptação são incríveis.

Focando mais no filme, a sinopse deixa a entender que seria um filme de investigação com um pouco de suspense, drama e comédia misturados, mas não é bem assim. O filme é mais uma dramédia, que foca bastante em explicar o porquê Bernadette some, mas não na procura da filha por ela. A busca acontece, predominantemente, nos últimos 45 minutos do filme, e diferente do livro, Bee não usa das pistas da sua mãe para encontrá-la, e quando encontra é basicamente por instinto, ficando um pouco mal explicado.

Elgie não é um dos melhores maridos. Ele está constantemente desconfiando da esposa e acredita nas palavras de qualquer pessoa que falar mal dela, pois já que está tendo dificuldades em compreendê-la, prefere acreditar que sua mulher está louca, do que a falta de esforço em compreender a fase complicada que sua mulher está passando. Um personagem facilmente manipulável, e que muda sua personalidade conforme o contexto.

Já Bee, a filha do casal, é muito compreensiva. Em nenhum momento ela julga as decisões da mãe, pelo contrário, ela busca entender profundamente.  Isso é explicado ao longo do filme, pois as duas passam bastante tempo juntas. Elas conhecem uma a outra como a si própria, a relação entre mãe e filha de Bernadette e Bee é louvável.  Pode-se dizer que esse é o ponto principal, tanto do filme quanto do livro, mostrar que quando uma relação é criada de forma sólida e baseada na confiança, nada pode destruí-la.  Ela é a narradora do filme, então tudo é visto de sua perspectiva, o que faz o espectador ser mais compreensível com a protagonista.

A obra cinematográfica mostra que o medo e a monotonia são inimigos de mentes geniais.

Bernadette é uma mulher cheia de peculiaridades. Extremamente anti-social, ansiosa, as vezes desesperada, mas o que não se pode dizer é que ela é uma mãe ruim. É muito carinhosa com a filha, participativa, compreensiva e apoia todas as decisões, por mais que doa. Após abandonar a carreira de arquiteta, ela se torna mãe em tempo integral, superprotetora, e ao ver que sua filha, e única amiga, está começando a traçar seu próprio caminho, ela entra em pânico. Apesar de seu marido insistir que ela precisava de terapia, ao fim quem assiste percebe que ela só precisava de conselho vindo de alguém que a conhecesse de verdade.

O filme faz várias críticas com um humor bem leve. A história é cativante, supreendente e dá vontade de assistir várias vezes, e de não ter assistido só para ter a sensação de assistir pela primeira vez. A atuação de Cate Blanchett como mãe é simplesmente maravilhosa, e rendeu a indicação ao Globo de ouro por seu trabalho. Quando o filme acaba, dá aquela sensação de que faltou algo para ser explicado, alguma cena, algum acontecimento para fechar a história, apesar de parte dos créditos passarem em o que pode ser uma “cena adicional”.

Além disso, a amizade entre Audrey e Bernadette poderia ter sido mais bem explorada. As duas se dão mal a maior parte do filme e quando se entendem, são separadas. Inclusive a única pista que Bee segue é dada por Audrey, então um pouco mais de relevância poderia ser dada a essa amizade em ascensão.

Por fim pode-se dizer que a 1h45min de filme é muito pouco para contar toda a história de Bernadette Fox, mas para aqueles que não leram o livro é uma história agradável, engraçada, emocionante, mas não daquelas que te faz chorar, “Cadê você Bernadette?” é uma daquelas histórias que te faz refletir.

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Troian Bellisario has been added to Richard Linklater’s upcoming comedy-drama “Where’d You Go, Bernadette,” Variety can exclusively confirm. She joins the already announced cast of Cate Blanchett, Kristen Wiig, and Billy Crudup.

The film, based on Maria Semple’s novel of the same name, follows Bernadette Fox (played by Blanchett), an architect-turned-recluse who goes missing just prior to a family vacation. Bellisario will assume the role of Becky, the first person Bernadette encounters as she makes her way through Antarctica.

Megan Ellison’s Annapurna and Nina Jacobson’s Color Force acquired the movie rights to Semple’s 2012 novel in 2013. Producers are Ellison, Ginger Sledge, Jacobson, and Brad Simpson of Color Force.

The latest draft is penned by Holly Gent Palmo and Vincent Palmo Jr. with Linklater. The previous writers were Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber.

Linklater has directed 20 films, including last year’s “Everybody Wants Some!!” and the upcoming Bryan Cranston-Steve Carell-Laurence Fishburne drama “Last Flag Flying,” which will be released by Amazon Studios. He received an Oscar nomination two years ago for “Boyhood.”

Bellisario had starred for the past seven years on the Freeform series “Pretty Little Liars,” which aired its series finale on June 27.  After graduating from Warner Bros.’ director’s program last June, she went on to direct her first episode of “PLL,” episode 5 in the final season.

Bellisario also wrote, produced, and stars in the independent feature “Feed,” which will be released by Sony Pictures on VOD and digital platforms on July 18. Tom Felton and Ben Winchell also star.

Bellisario is represented by Gersh, Management 360, and Loeb & Loeb.

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ICE QUEEN - My Review of WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE (3 1/2 Stars)

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Richard Linklater, one of the most humanistic filmmakers working today, has often explored such themes as time, aging, or the benchmarks in ones lives, such as the last day of High School (Dazed And Confused),  a first date (Before Sunrise), or the entire breadth of a child’s life (Boyhood).  His films often feel unstructured, laid back and unforced.  It’s strange then to see him play in the James L. Brooks/Cameron Crowe sandbox with his adaptation of Maria Semple’s epistolary novel, Where’d You Go, Bernadette, but that’s not automatically a bad thing. Co-written with Holly Gent and Vincent Palmo Jr., Linklater seems out of his element with  this part-sitcom, part psycho-drama about a stifled genius.  Still, he manages to deliver a moving experience helped immeasurably by Cate Blanchett’s fantastic title performance.  

Bernadette lives in a dilapidated Seattle mansion with her Microsoft tech genius husband Elgie (Billy Crudup) and their adorable teenage daughter Bee (Emma Nelson).  As a reward to Bee for a successful report card, they agree to take her on a family trip to Antarctica.  Trouble is, over the years, Bernadette, a once famous architect, has transformed into a shut-in who hates people, especially taking it out on her next door neighbor, Audrey (Kristen Wiig). Deeply troubled, Bernadette spends most of her time barking orders at Manjula, her virtual assistant in India, who arranges for everything to come to her door in package after package.  Getting her out of the house and to the most remote place on earth seems unlikely.  

It takes quite a while for the themes to coalesce, with the first act focusing on her feud with Audrey.  Wiig excels with her tightly wound Mean Girl character and works well with Blanchett.  I wondered, however, what this had to do with Antarctica and why we were spending so much time on this wayward plot strand.  The story, however, slowly reveals itself to be about what becomes of an artist who no longer creates.  She acts out, makes bad decisions, and directs her anger at everyone.  

For a while, you laugh along with Bernadette as she takes out some easy targets.  It culminates in a great scene in which Bernadette and Bee gang up on Audrey to take her down a peg.  A lesser film would have left it at that, leaving a bad taste in my mouth to see women hurting each other.  It wisely chooses to move beyond that scene and give these three women more dimensions than presented at first.  Crudup also impressed me with his long-suffering husband character.  He could have easily played Elgie as an entitled husband who wants his wife to “behave”, but instead he offers a soulful person who loves his wife yet can’t figure out how to navigate her towards happiness.  Emma Nelson also excels as the kind of incredibly cool daughter you’d want to hang with as friends, but who also clearly needs a more solid foundation in which to grow.  

Unlike the somewhat goofy trailer, the film has a much more somber tone in keeping with its rainy, Pacific Northwest setting.  Disappointingly, it’s Linklater’s least flashy directing job of his career.  The closest film this resembles is Ben Stiller’s The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, another story about a character drowning in self-loathing.  Whereas Stiller went for intense visual flourishes, Linklater merely delivers coverage.  Still, I felt something here, despite a certain flatness and a ridiculous series of events involving such disparate things as penguins, FBI investigations, mudslides, kayaks, online scams, and potential office affairs.  It’s a LOT to take in, but Blanchett anchors it with someone cold, nihilistic, yet relatable.  It may all come off as champagne problems,  (“Oh darn, should we go to Antarctica?”  “Did I order too many vests from the catalogue?”  “That flood ruined my expensive oak floors!”) but Blanchett makes you care just the same.  

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Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2019)

Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel: Maria Semple!

Former architect Bernadette Fox seems to have it all -- a beautiful home in Seattle, a successful and loving husband, and a brilliant teenage daughter who's about to attend boarding school. When Bernadette suddenly disappears without a trace, her concerned family sets off on an exciting adventure to… MORE

Based on the runaway bestseller, Where'd You Go, Bernadette is an inspiring comedy about Bernadette Fox (Cate Blanchett), a loving mom who becomes compelled to reconnect with her creative passions after years of sacrificing herself for her family. Bernadette's leap of faith takes her on an epic adventure that jump-starts her life and leads to her triumphant rediscovery.

Initial release: August 16, 2019 (USA)

Director: Richard Linklater

Story by: Maria Semple

Adapted from: Where'd You Go, Bernadette

Screenplay: Richard Linklater, Holly Gent Palmo, Vincent Palmo Jr.

What parents need to know

Parents need to know that Where'd You Go, Bernadette is director Richard Linklater's adaptation of Maria Semple's best-selling 2012 novel about an eccentric, anxious, and borderline agoraphobic Seattle mother. But Bernadette (Cate Blanchett) is more than she seems (a bored, rich housewife); she's actually an architectural genius who hasn't worked in nearly 20 years. Expect a few instances of strong language (including two uses of "f--k" and the occasional "bitch," "ass," "s--t," etc.), as well as several shots of Bernadette's conspicuous consumerism in the form of Amazon packages and Apple products. A teen vapes, and adults drink. Mature content also includes marital discord and a couple of upsetting arguments. But there's plenty to discuss, from sexism and stereotypes to the importance of mentors and close parent-teen relationships.

Critic reviews

The performances, particularly Blanchett's, outweigh the product in this adaptation that favors audiences familiar with the story and its anxious-genius main character. Full review

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Movie Review: Where’d You Go, Bernadette

Anyone who knows me or reads this blog knows that I am a hardcore Richard Linklater fan. I have been a fan of his since I saw Dazed and Confused in the movie theater opening night in 1993 and I’ve studied all of his work since. He is without a doubt one of the greatest filmmakers working today. His ability to work is a variety of genres, indie and studios, originals and adaptations, yet have his own unique stamp on everything he does is unlike anyone else working today. Even when he’s made films that didn’t quite connect with audiences or critics, there has always been something interesting within them. I think his most personal and best films have been the ones he wrote himself (Slacker, D&C, the Before trilogy and Boyhood), but there have been some exciting moments in his filmography that involved him directing an adaptation of a book or story. Some have underwhelmed (i.e. The Newton Boys, which was high on energy but lacking in the story) or had moments of greatness but tried to shoe-horn too big a book into a movie (i.e. Fast Food Nation), but others have pushed Linklater is very exciting directions like the animated adaption of Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly or his love letter to theater in Me and Orson Welles or the true crime story Bernie or the criminally underrated Last Flag Flying (read my 2107 review here). Now Linklater has reunited with Holly Gent and Vincent Palmo Jr. (his co-writers on Me and Orson Welles) to adapt Maria Semple’s bestseller Where’d You Go, Bernadette.

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I never read the book, but I could tell this is not an easy book to adapt to film (or market or fit into a soundbite for that matter). There are definitely going to be some detractors from this film since it is taking on some cerebral themes and fitting it into a populist family dramedy. While it is uneven at times, I do think it was quite beautiful at its core! Let me explain...

The always excellent Cate Blanchett

The always fantastic Cate Blanchett anchors this film as a once-famous architect who hasn’t designed anything in twenty years and is now in Seattle with her Microsoft husband and teenage daughter. She is anti-social and agoraphobic among many other things. Then one day she disappears. Casting Billy Crudup as the husband is interesting casting given that he had played a husband and father who disappears in World Traveler. I had some serious issues with (SPOILER ALERT) the intervention that involves the FBI. There were plenty of things they could of committed her for, but internet fraud seemed like something anyone could’ve been taken for a ride on.

“ People like you must create. 

If you don’t, you become a menace to society.”

- Laurence Fishburne as Paul Jellinek

So what did I find beautiful about this (and yes, I did cry at one point)? The core of this movie is about someone who needs to create and is unsure of what to do with her life when she isn’t. But it takes her on quite a journey all the way to Antarctica to get back to that thing that lights a fire under her. As a creative spirit myself I’ve definitely felt uncertain of myself when I haven’t been creating. This is not something that people talk much about, much less make movies about. I commend Linklater and Blanchette for tapping into that. They touch upon the defeated experience she had that caused her to not design in decades and one could look at it as getting back on the horse and overcoming that setback. But in the end (SPOILER ALERT) its the family that helps her get back on track and supports her, flaws and all. Even if this story is tonally uneven and borderline sitcom at times, it has something intriguing in it.

Blanchett and Linklater on set

What also needs to be said is that Linklater, now in his late 50s, is making films about the experience of parenthood, i.e. Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke as the divorced parents in Boyhood, Steve Carrell in Last Flags Flying, and now Blanchett with the great newcomer Emma Nelson as Bee. These are the kind of films and themes he might not have made in his early days, but he’s tapping into it now. Linklater once said he would only want to direct a film that “could only be made by me”. Its true. Even when its a remake of The Bad News Bears, it still feels like your in the hands of Linklater. His trademark artistry is on display as is Blanchett’s lived-in performance.

Annapurna Pictures (who also released Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some!!) is releasing Where’d You Go, Bernadette theatrically today. For more info: https://www.bernadette.film/

3.5 out of 5 stars

[mrmichaelchadler]

#344 December 25, 2018

Matt writes: In this final Ebert Club newsletter of the year, released to you on Christmas Day, we are sharing the RogerEbert.com staff's picks for the Top 10 Films of 2018. You can find each of the writer's lists (including the one penned by your's truly) by clicking here. As for the list comprised of films selected cumulatively by the site's regular roster of critics, Alfonso Cuarón's "Roma" led the pack, crowned as the best film released over the past twelve months. It was followed by Joel & Ethan Coen's "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs," Boots Riley's "Sorry to Bother You," Paul Schrader's "First Reformed," Barry Jenkins' "If Beale Street Could Talk," Sandi Tan's "Shirkers," Alex Garland's "Annihilation," Spike Lee's "BlacKkKlansman," Lee Chang-dong's "Burning" and Paweł Pawlikowski's "Cold War." To read the critics' thoughts on each of the aforementioned choices, click here.

Trailers

Where'd You Go, Bernadette? (2019). Directed by Richard Linklater. Written by Richard Linklater, Holly Gent and Vincent Palmo Jr. (based on the novel by Maria Semple). Starring Cate Blanchett, Judy Greer, Kristen Wiig. Synopsis: After her anxiety-ridden mother disappears, 15-year-old Bee does everything she can to track her down, discovering her troubled past in the process. Opens in US theaters on March 22nd, 2019.

Rendezvous in Chicago (2018). Written and directed by Michael Glover Smith. Starring Clare Cooney, Dave McNulty, Shane Simmons. Synopsis: A short comedic feature film comprised of three vignettes corresponding to the beginning, middle and end stages of a relationship. US release date is TBA.

Piercing (2019). Written and directed by Nicolas Pesce (based on the novel by Ryû Murakami). Starring Mia Wasikowska, Christopher Abbott, Laia Costa. Synopsis: A man kisses his wife and baby goodbye and seemingly heads away on business, with a plan to check into a hotel, call an escort service, and kill an unsuspecting prostitute. Opens in US theaters on February 1st, 2019.

Adult Life Skills (2019). Written and directed by Rachel Tunnard. Starring Jodie Whittaker, Lorraine Ashbourne, Brett Goldstein. Synopsis: Anna is stuck: she's approaching 30, living like a hermit in her mum's garden shed and wondering why the suffragettes ever bothered. She spends her days making videos using her thumbs as actors - thumbs that bicker about things like whether Yogi Bear is a moral or existential nihilist. Opens in US theaters on January 18th, 2019.

Mapplethorpe (2019). Directed by Ondi Timoner. Written by Ondi Timoner and Mikko Alanne. Starring Matt Smith, Hari Nef, John Benjamin Hickey. Synopsis: A look at the life of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe from his rise to fame in the 1970s to his untimely death in 1989. US release date is TBA.

Brexit (2019). Directed by Toby Haynes. Written by James Graham. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Rory Kinnear, Liz White. Synopsis: Strategist Dominic Cummings leads a campaign to convince British voters to leave the European Union. Premieres on HBO on January 19th, 2019.

The Wild Pear Tree (2019). Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Written by Akin Aksu, Ebru Ceylan and Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Starring Dogu Demirkol, Murat Cemcir, Bennu Yildirimlar. Synopsis: An aspiring writer returns to his native village, where his father's debts catch up to him. Opens in US theaters on January 30th, 2019.

The Mustang (2019). Directed by Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre. Written by Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, Brock Norman Brock and Mona Fastvold. Starring Matthias Schoenaerts, Connie Britton, Bruce Dern. Synopsis: The story of Roman Coleman, a violent convict who is given the chance to participate in a rehabilitation therapy program involving the training of wild mustangs. Opens in US theaters on March 15th, 2019.

Captive State (2019). Directed by Rupert Wyatt. Written by Rupert Wyatt and Erica Beeney. Starring Ashton Sanders, John Goodman, Vera Farmiga. Synopsis: Set in a Chicago neighborhood nearly a decade after an occupation by an extra-terrestrial force, this film explores the lives on both sides of the conflict - the collaborators and dissidents. Opens in US theaters on March 29th, 2019.

Hotel Mumbai (2019). Directed by Anthony Maras. Written by Anthony Maras and John Collee. Starring Dev Patel, Armie Hammer, Jason Isaacs. Synopsis: The true story of the Taj Hotel terrorist attack in Mumbai. Hotel staff risk their lives to keep everyone safe as people make unthinkable sacrifices to protect themselves and their families. Opens in US theaters on March 29th, 2019.

Triple Frontier (2019). Directed by J.C. Chandor. Written by J.C. Chandor and Mark Boal. Starring Ben Affleck, Pedro Pascal, Charlie Hunnam. Synopsis: Five former Special Forces operatives reunite to plan a heist in a sparsely populated multi-border zone of South America. US release date is TBA.

Brightburn (2019). Directed by David Yarovesky. Written by Brian Gunn and Mark Gunn. Starring Elizabeth Banks, Meredith Hagner, David Denman. Synopsis: What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to mankind, he proved to be something far more sinister? Opens in US theaters on May 24th, 2019.

Hellboy (2019). Directed by Neil Marshall. Written by Andrew Cosby (based on the comic books by Mike Mignola). Starring David Harbour, Milla Jovovich, Ian McShane. Synopsis: Caught between the worlds of the supernatural and human, Hellboy battles an ancient sorceress bent on revenge. Opens in US theaters on April 12th, 2019.

Breakthrough (2019). Directed by Roxann Dawson. Written by Grant Nieporte. Starring Topher Grace, Chrissy Metz, Rebecca Staab. Synopsis: When he was 14, Smith drowned in Lake St. Louis and was dead for nearly an hour. According to reports at the time, CPR was performed 27 minutes to no avail. Then the youth's mother, Joyce Smith, entered the room, praying loudly. Suddenly, there was a pulse, and Smith came around. Opens in US theaters on April 17th, 2019.

King of Thieves (2019). Directed by James Marsh. Written by Joe Penhall (based on the magazine article by Mark Seal). Starring Charlie Cox, Michael Caine, Michael Gambon. Synopsis: A true crime film about a crew of retired crooks who pull off a major heist in London's jewelry district. What starts off as their last criminal hurrah quickly turns into a brutal nightmare due to greed. Based on infamous true events. Opens in US theaters on January 25th, 2019.

Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (2019). Directed by Will Becher and Richard Phelan. Written by Jon Brown and Mark Burton (based on the characters by Nick Park). Starring Justin Fletcher. Synopsis: When an alien with amazing powers crash-lands near Mossy Bottom Farm, Shaun the Sheep goes on a mission to shepherd the intergalactic visitor home before a sinister organization can capture her. US release date is TBA.

Bathtubs Over Broadway (2018). Directed by Dava Whisenant. Synopsis: A Late Night comedy writer stumbles upon a hilarious, hidden world of entertainment and finds an unexpected connection to his fellow man. Now playing in US theaters.

Downton Abbey (2019). Directed by Michael Engler (based on the characters by Julian Fellowes). Starring Maggie Smith, Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern. Synopsis: The film version of the popular British television show. Opens in US theaters on September 20th, 2019.

Polish Oscar contender "Cold War" 

Matt writes: RogerEbert.com's comprehensive coverage of "Cold War," the latest masterwork from Oscar-winning "Ida" director Paweł Pawlikowski, includes a four-star review by Tomris Laffly, my own in-depth interview with Pawlikowski and a video interview with the filmmaker conducted by Scout Tafoya.

Great Performances of 2018

Matt writes: In this annual round-up of great performances delivered over the last twelve months, various writers at RogerEbert.com single out major talents worthy of recognition during awards season, such as Helena Howard ("Madeline's Madeline"), John Cho ("Searching"), Elsie Fisher ("Eighth Grade"), Sakura Andô ("Shoplifters"), Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie ("Leave No Trace"), Raffey Cassidy ("Vox Lux") and many more. To read the full list, click here.

Free Movies

The Judy Garland Christmas Show (1963). Directed by Dean Whitmore. Written by John Aylesworth, John Bradford, Frank Peppiatt. Starring Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli, Lorna Luft. Synopsis: The holiday special of "The Judy Garland Show," featuring guests Mel Torme, Jack Jones, Tracey Everitt and more.

Watch "The Judy Garland Christmas Show"

Frosty the Snowman (1969). Directed by Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin Jr.. Written by Romeo Muller. Starring Jackie Vernon, Billy De Wolfe, Jimmy Durante. Synopsis: A living snowman and a little girl struggle to elude a greedy magician who is after the snowman's magic hat.

Watch "Frosty the Snowman"

A Christmas Carol (1984). Directed by Clive Donner. Written by Roger O. Hirson (based on the novel by Charles Dickens). Starring George C. Scott, Frank Finlay, Angela Pleasence. Synopsis: An old bitter miser who rationalizes his uncaring nature learns real compassion when three spirits visit him on Christmas Eve.

Watch "A Christmas Carol"

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Movie Review - Where'd You Go, Bernadette? (2019)

Movie Review – Where’d You Go, Bernadette? (2019)

IMDb Rating: 6.5/10

PG-13 |1h 49min |Comedy, Drama |16 Aug 2019 (Canada) |Movie

Metacritic: 51/100

Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 49% Rotten (Critic Reviews) | 74% Fresh (Audience)

Director: Richard Linklater

Writers:  Richard Linklater, Holly Gent, Vincent Palmo Jr.

Stars:  Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Emma Nelson

Movie Tagline: “Bernadette Fox has it all. A loving husband, and a brilliant daughter.…

[cinema-neilton1962]

Dirigido por Richard Linklater ('Boyhood'), a comédia dramática ainda conta com Billy Crudup, Kristen Wiig, Judy Greer e Laurence Fishburn. O roteiro foi co-escrito por Linklater, Holly Gent e Vincent Palmo Jr. Na trama, Bernadette Fox é uma mulher de Seatle que parece ter tudo: um casamento feliz, uma filha brilhante e um ótimo lar. Até que ela - subitamente - decide sumir, deixando para sua filha a missão de descobrir aonde ela foi parar. (em Tijuca, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrkdQZplgGc/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=12gn1jvot8upa

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Makilala TV Ep54: Filipinos in the Bronx

Guest Panelists: Nica Garana Student, College of Mount Saint Vincent

Victor Palmos Make-up artist

Lindy Rosales Registered Nurse

Guest Performers: J-Aly Acoustics with Josh Concepcion and Alyssa Stephanie Bernardino (Original song composed by Josh Concepcion "Sa Tamang Panahon” - At The Right Time)

Hosts: Cristina DC Pastor (lead) , community journalist Rachelle Ocampo, health educator Jen Furer, author/mentor/coach

Produced by Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN) Zenaida Mendez, Director Fredy Pinto, Production & Studio Manager

Production Team Ronnie Jay Ocampo, Jr. , Video Editor Vince Gesmundo of Vynz Entertainment, Refreshments Victor Palmos, Hair & Make-up   Jo Tipon,  Floral arrangements Joe Valva, QPTV Access Producer

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Me and Orson Welles

Av Hans Petter Bjerva

Orson Welles er notorisk i sitt vesen, i tåkeheimen av mytene som omgir hans liv. Mannen gjorde det meste, mye strålende men like mye forferedelig dårlig; men det er ikke viktig for myten rundt han; for mystikken er hans ettermæle. Regissør Richard Linklater spenner vidt i sitt spekter av filmer; og det var med spenning jeg satte meg for å se hva han kunne gjøre med Orson Welles.

Rammen rundt filmen sentrerer seg rundt rollen Zac Efron spiller, som kommer til teateret med store og idealistiske tanker, ideer og ambisjoner. Ved en tilfeldighet treffer han Orson Welles på utsiden av et teateret; og får sin førte rolle i en oppsetning av William Shakespeares Julius Caesar. Welles, full av sitt eget ego selv i en ung utgave, står for regien. Dramaet oppstår mellom hovedrolleinnehaveren og Welles når en jente (Claire Danes) kommer imellom dem; og spillet på scenen er like kaotisk som forholdet dem i mellom.

Filmen er ikke god som helhet; mest fordi rammehistorien til Efron og Danes rett og slett ikke fungerer. Teateret som enhet er nærmest halvveis komisk, for struktur blir et fremmedord under Welles, i sin kreative galskap. Men det som redder filmen er hvor godt Christian McKay, i hver pore av hans vesen, befester rollen som Orson Welles. Dette var hans første virkelige filmrolle; og han lever myten til det fulle. Det er en fryd å se skuespilleriet; og jeg kan bare håpe å få se mer til han i fremtiden. Langt på veg redder han filmen; som i sin helhet altså er ganske svak.

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