ユアン・マクレガーと実娘で俳優・プロデューサーのクララ・マクレガーが親子役で共演し、父と娘の愛と回復への旅をつづったドラマ。実生活でも、長年連れ添った妻との離婚や再婚によってクララとの親子関係に問題を抱えていたユアン。クララがユアンとの親子間の問題や大切な記憶を、同世代の女性脚本家たちと共にオリジナルストーリーとして描き、ジャネール・モネイ「PYNK」のMVでグラミー賞にノミネートされたオランダ出身の気鋭エマ・ウェステンバーグが長編初メガホンをとった。 長い間疎遠だった娘のある出来事をきっかけに、父は彼女をニューメキシコ州へと向かう旅に連れ出す。関係を修復したくても、どうすれば溝を埋められるのかわからない。娘は父との美しい過去を思い出しながらも、自分を捨てた父を許すことができずに反発してしまう。目的地が近づくなか、父娘はお互いが抱える問題と向き合うことになり……。
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監督: エマ・ウェステンバーグ
脚本: ヴェラ・バルダー / クララ・マクレガー / Ruby Caster
音楽: Raven Aartsen
制作: Mark Amin / Brent Morris / クリスティーン・ヴェイコン
撮影監督: Chris Ripley
制作会社: Deux Dames Entertainment / Killer Films / Sobini Films / Black Magic
The family McGregor must have decided that a dad/daughter road movie was just what we all needed, so Ewan and Clara set about manufacturing this really rather unremarkable and tedious drama. We gather from fairly early on that their's is a strained relationship and he has a lot of ground to make up with a daughter who has just emerged from the ER but a few hours earlier. Of course all the details of that duly unfold and the usual smattering of entirely predicable familial baggage is also unpacked for us as this trundles along. Luckily (for us) their truck breaks down and that offers us a chance to meet the entertaining tow-truck driver (Kim Zimmer - easily the highlight of the whole enterprise) and as it's fixed, un-named daughter sneaks a few snifters with "Kip" (Jake Weary) before dad saves the day and on they travel. She's a bit prone to toilet stops, and on one she unknowingly encounters a little spider that leaves quite an agonising gift in her nether regions. Luckily, again, we have a local hooker on hand who knows just how to apply the ice and yep, more tarmac and white lines.... Road movies work if you care about the passengers. I can honestly say that I didn't at all here. I'm a bit weary of these stories that just show us yet another dysfunctional relationship being played out against a background of desertion or addiction or adultery or just plain boredom, and I am afraid that much of the tortuous and over-delivered dialogue did little to engage me further. It didn't need a big budget, the production is fine - but the story and both performances here are just yawn, yawn, yawn. Sorry.
It's not that bad. I really appreciate her dedication to her habits. Had to skip some of the yelling.
