Film Review The Kids Are All Right
Lisa Cholodenko casts a fair and relevant to the life of a gay family in Southern California. Refreshing. Few, if not nonexistent, are the films depict the everyday knowledge of gay families without taking their feet in the cracks of the mat, magnifying the line or by injecting a healthy dose of fantasy.
Without being a masterpiece, “The Kids Are All Right”, new realization vaguely autobiographical Lisa Cholodenko (“High Art”,”Laurel Canyon”), noticed during his visits to Sundance and Berlin, has at least this deserves to sink into a lifestyle without the stigma or be clumsy attention. It is also not the only one of his qualities.
Nic is a doctor. Jules, she is reluctant to embark on a new career in landscaping. Married for years, they share the comfort of their beautiful home in southern California with their two teenage children, Joni and Laser, designed by artificial insemination. While Joni was leaving for college, his brother 15 years convinces her to find and contact their biological fathers. But the arrival of Paul, a cool restaurant and unconstrained in the life of the little family will not happen without waves.
Both say from the outset, one of the great strengths of this “Kids Are All Right” is to have melted the couple’s homosexuality in the main decor. Like any couple, they love each other, bored, compete, share the joys and sorrows with an astounding banality. The customs have changed, do not bother to return to this fact and is just fine. And if there caricature, it will be more toward the paint slightly ironic way of life in California, among bohemian bourgeois cult of organic and local sweet life forced. Somewhat in the manner of Armistead Maupin in his “Tales of San Francisco”, Cholodenko does not bother to justify, explain or to argue, simply observing and understanding with the disappointments of this family just like others. Or almost.
But beyond this and finally just look really relevant also based on what our reality (no offense to some) is still a feeling of sunny charm that emanates from this small film ambitions simple and honest. Thanks primarily to a dramatic narrative without apparent thick string and dialogues sometimes fall flat. Thanks also to a situational humor rather late that, without doing too much, do get the pill without a hitch family drama.
Thanks finally to characters both feet firmly planted in reality made them incredibly endearing by actors at ease in their roles : Annette Bening, that had not seen fit so long, Mark Ruffalo, chose Mia Wasikowska, Josh Hitcherson but especially Julianne Moore reveals a nuanced comic potential and attractive. “The Kids Are All Right” was perhaps not the aftertaste of a wine of exception, of course, but it has undoubtedly a cool glass of sangria on a beautiful summer evening .
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