@SarahLee btw this is a new feature on talent manager. Interesting change. 👊🏽

@RuhiHamid I don’t think this was overacted. It fully conveys the grief of a woman losing her mother and her child. A woman not having the support while grieving due to not having a family, and her partner being far away. Women going through this experience feel the same way, or even worse. It’s an awful experience, and many women might identify with it. How else can you show the feeling of grief if not by crying, screaming and showing an almost madness/depression experience?

@VerónicaMuñoz Martínez o get what you’re saying and agree it’s what women go thru. However I just did not engage or care about the characters. She didn’t have a particularly close or warm relationship with her mother. I get her anger and grief at the absent husband off doing his creative stuff leaving her behind as many women then and today often left tending to kids. I get the concept totally. I just didn’t feel the film. It’s only my experience.

@RuhiHamid I loved it. Exceptional filmmaking from Chloé Zhao. The way it tracks innocence, love, family, trauma, sacrifice, grief & how unbearable pain can be transformed into art, into memory, into catharsis, was so beautifully done. Every frame feels considered. I thought Jessie Buckley was remarkable. I also loved the collective experience of seeing it in a cinema surrounded by strangers. No one moved when the credits came up, just sat together in silence.

@MattWilliams interesting. At our screening in Bloomsbury everyone watched the credits in silence as is normal. But as soon as the lights came up there was much spontaneous discussions in the audience questioning aspects of the film. Maybe we were just an odd audience. Anyway, I’m not here to convince anyone on what their personal experience of the film is. I’m very aware that it’s very divided. Always good to discuss cinema. After all much of it is subjective.

@RuhiHamid 100%. I loved it, but I have friends who felt very similarly to you. Interestingly, I recently saw Sentimental Value, which is also up for a lot of awards - the acting is brilliant, but for me the film as a whole didn’t quite live up to the hype.

@MattWilliams haha that’s so interesting about Sentimental Value. I loved it. Mature, confident understated acting and direction. No whistles and bells but deeply emotional portraying complex familial relationships. Stellan’s acting was superb as always with subtle expressions with an eye movement, a wry smile etc. Both daughters were great too. And probably the best I’ve ever seen of Elle Fanning. I came out feeling satisfied that I finally saw a film I rated this year. I also loved Secret Agent. But I think I generally prefer ‘foreign’ films over Hollywood. And I absolutely loved Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland. That’s a masterpiece and now she got Hollywoodised!! 😉

Also loved It Was Just an Acvident by Jafar Panahi. And Paolo Sorrentini’s La Grazia and Richard linklaters Nouvelle Vague.

@RuhiHamid I agree about the understatement of Sentimental Value and about the acting - all four main actors were fantastic. It just had a few pacing issues for me but overall I liked it a lot. I totally agree about The Secret Agent - I think it's my favourite film of the year. It was so evocative, I felt like I'd spent time in Brazil in the 70s. The mix of realism and surrealism was so impactful.