I’M YOUR WOMAN | FILM REVIEW
Dir: Julia Hart (15, 120 mins)
A slow-burn, 70s-set crime drama that keeps a lot of the action offscreen, this is still an engaging character piece for The Marvellous Mrs Maisel’s Rachel Brosnahan. She plays Jean, a bored wife to Bill Heck’s Eddie – a husband with crime links, however, who brings home a baby to look after when they fail to have their own.
Off-screen, lowlife mobster Eddie makes a play for running the crime syndicate himself, killing one of his partners and setting his disgruntled partners on the trail of his wife and baby. She gets protection from stoic Cal, played by a soulful Arinze Kene, who has his own reasons to keep her safe and a complicated past of his own. His wife, child and father are brought into the proceedings when Brosnahan is attacked, and they have to find another safe house – an old family retreat where they hole up before going off in search of a missing Cal.
All this is told through Brosnahan’s eyes as she gradually realizes quite how dangerous her husband was, and his chequered past catches up with her, violently. Determinedly low-key with bursts of brutality, it’s never less than involving, the 1970s crime milieu lovingly recreated and lensed by cinematographer Bryce Fortner.
Written by director Hart and Jordan Horowitz, I’m Your Woman is a bit of a shaggy dog story, but one made engaging by Brosnahan’s performance as she moves from exhausted new mother to independent woman with a core of steel. Full of twists and turns, with some moments of action frustratingly hidden, we watch a woman find her feet as a mother and, likewise, find herself.
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words KEIRON SELF