Hope Gap is the occasion for a volcanically bitter performance from Bening.
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Although classy and occasionally insightful, Hope Gap tends to talk around difficult emotions rather than share them with the audience. Want more Rolling Stone? The most insightful comments on all subjects will be published daily in dedicated articles. Bening’s British accent feels off, but its measured, dreamlike tones fit surprisingly well with Grace’s increasing detachment from reality. A bookend to last year's A Marriage Story...a portrait of a marriage exploding like a white-hot supernova -- while Hope Gap depicts one that has dwindled to a dwarf star, collapsing under its own weight. Independent Premium Comments can be posted by members of our membership scheme, Independent Premium.
But Nicholson sets “Hope Gap” in a picture-perfect seaside town — the white cliffs seem to symbolize how Grace’s marriage has suddenly fallen away — and centers it on three intelligent people coping with something both everyday and devastating. For the rest of us, this is hopeless.
“You’re no good at making people love you,” she cruelly tells Jamie, before lashing out at Edward for his “sneaking, two-faced, marital treachery.” As Grace sees it, her Catholic God has deserted her. Parents need to know that Hope Gap is a British drama about an aging couple whose adult son becomes their mediator when they decide to divorce.
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As a film, Hope Gap is indelible and infuriating in equal measure, often at odds with itself and the demands of an audience. Due to the sheer scale of this comment community, we are not able to give each post the same level of attention, but we have preserved this area in the interests of open debate. All rights reserved.
What is rich on stage can feel crowded and stiff on film. What works and what gets the eye roll in band/brand marketing pairings. Don't have an account? New Bonkers Interview: Trump Says He Beat Biden in Second Debate, an Event That Has Yet to Happen, Steve Vai on Getting to Know the Real Eddie Van Halen, 5 Times Mike Pence Tried to Gaslight America During the Vice Presidential Debate, Flashback: Van Halen Play ‘Jump’ at Their Final Concert, I Was Prescribed Trump’s Steroid. The existing Open Comments threads will continue to exist for those who do not subscribe to Independent Premium. A cataclysmic casting decision combined with consistently flabby direction have conspired to transform this low-level divorce drama into a titter-inducing dud.
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“The way I am seems to suit her,” he tells his son with rending simplicity. Edward recounts the story to his pupils, so that the film can gracelessly offer it up as a metaphor for his failed marriage. Opens March 13 in multiple theaters. The treacherous waves that crash against the cliffs of Hope Gap are an apt metaphor for navigating the often-cruel devastation of divorce and not necessarily knowing how to survive it.
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In an example of the film’s acid humor, Grace adopts a dog she names Edward and brings to heel with commands of “stay.”. There's an unusual calmness to this drama that feels bracingly original.
“Hope Gap” is a deeply sad film, and maybe not what a lot of us are in the mood for these days, but it’s ultimately uplifting, in its quiet way. The performances are terrific, especially from Bening who adds yet another deeply nuanced study to her gallery of complicated, smart women of a certain age. That's undoubtedly an interesting idea but Grace (Bening) and Edward (Nighy) are so odd and awkward together, you can't believe their marriage would have lasted a week, let alone the 29 years it apparently has. “The thing about unhappiness is that after a while, it stops being interesting,” Grace muses; she’s finding, in her own complicated fashion, a way to move on. Though the cast gamely delivers each idea, finding the musicality in the ebb and flow of Nicholson’s words, Hope Gap never seems to grasp the crucial differences between theatre and film. A coastal breath of fresh air, but Bening should ditch the accent.
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Grace’s placid surroundings have a way of amplifying her own distress. Nicholson has form with writing later-life relationships, so it's a shame that the real hope gap here is that between expectation and reality.
What Hopkins and Winger did to blow away stage-bound mustiness, Bening and Nighy accomplish in Hope Gap with equally brilliant assurance. Our journalists will try to respond by joining the threads when they can to create a true meeting of independent Premium. Hope Gap Critics Consensus. Please enter your email address and we will email you a new password. Just try not to have your heart broken as Bening murmurs, in her dusky British accent, about waking up — “that moment, coming out of the confusion of dreams, and you think maybe it’s not true, maybe he’s lying there after all, and you turn your head on the pillow and he’s not there.”. - becomes more jarring the longer we go on. But no tears are shed. Hope Gap, William Nicholson’s second film as a director, is a world away from the projects he’s usually known for, having co-written both Gladiator and Les Misérables. Create a commenting name to join the debate, There are no Independent Premium comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts, There are no comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts. Her cries of pain ricochet off the walls. A full buffet of metaphors isn’t necessary when the camera itself can say so much about a character’s state of mind. Your sympathies are deftly toyed with; Nighy jitters and surprises; O'Connor has the sad gravity of the eternal referee.
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