Robin Wright's housewife character reflects on her past in an off-kilter story.
di Robert Abele The Los Angeles Times
Perched uncomfortably between flat whimsy and Lifetime movie crescendos, the coming-of-middle-age comic drama "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee" is rough going.
Writer-director Rebecca Miller, adapting her own novel about a 50-year-old people-pleasing housewife's long overdue reassessment of her life, is after the elusive charm of a highbrow chick flick. To that end, she's shrewd enough to cast melancholic beauty Robin Wright as the title character, who upon moving into a well-appointed Connecticut retirement community with her retired publisher husband (Alan Arkin) begins to reflect on the various women she's been before her current perfect-spouse persona. [...]
di Robert Abele, articolo completo (2163 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 27 novembre 2009
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