Two films focus on put-together women falling apart
Julia Roberts and Rose Byrne deliver two of the more spectacular performances you’re going to see this year, playing flinty, difficult characters blessedly unconcerned with eliciting the audience’s sympathies in Luca Guadagnino’s “After the Hunt” and Mary Bronstein’s “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” reviews critic Sean Burns.
There are so few substantial roles for women at the movies these days, getting a couple of barn-burners in the same week is a cause for celebration.
Julia Roberts and Rose Byrne deliver two of the more spectacular performances you’re going to see this year, playing flinty, difficult characters blessedly unconcerned with eliciting the audience’s sympathies in Luca Guadagnino’s “After the Hunt” and Mary Bronstein’s “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” respectively.
The former is an entertainingly trashy, star-studded provocation while the latter is an indie psychodrama boasting some of the most audacious laughs in recent memory.
Author's summary: Celebrating women's roles in two new films.