Wide release 7/30/2021
Viewed 8/8/2021 at Regal Harrisburg
IMBd: 6.9/10
RT Critic: 74 Audience: 72
Critic's Consensus:
Cag: 5/Loved it
Directed by Tom McCarthy
setting: mostly Marseilles, France
Actors: Matt Damon, Camille Cottin, Abigail Breslin
My comments: First movie-in-a-theater in a year and a half!! Super exciting! And this was a good choice. Very interesting piece of storytelling. Equally the story of a father doing anything to keep his daughter happy and a character study of the part that Matt Damon plays. It's about the characters and their relationships, what drives them, what makes them do the things they've done in their lives. Can we be predisposed to be a fuck up? I think that's the actual theme of the movie, which I really liked a lot. Matt Damon was really wonderful (side note: it looked like he put on a few pounds for this part). What I saw of the setting, Marseilles, was nothing like what I have e er pictured Marseilles to be like. I loved the way he learned to speak French and I loved the relationship between him and the nine-year-old girl, Maya.
RT/ IMDb Summary: Unemployed roughneck Bill Baker (Academy Award® winner Matt Damon) travels from Oklahoma to Marseilles to visit his estranged daughter Allison (Academy Award® nominee Abigail Breslin). Imprisoned for a murder she claims she did not commit. Allison seizes on a new tip that could exonerate her and presses Bill to engage her legal team But Bill eager to prove his worth and regain his daughters trust, takes matters into his own hands. He is quickly stymied by language barriers, cultural differences, and a complicated legal system until he meets French actress Virginie (Camille Cottin), mother to eight-year-old Maya (Lilou Siauvaud). Together, these unlikely allies embark on a journey of discovery, truth, love and liberation.
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