Anthony LaPaglia is a man who embarks on an unlikely friendship with an elderly woman in this insightful yet underwhelming filmWhimsy is a difficult tone to master. Too often,attempts at magical realism can come off as forced and overly cutesy. At final year’s Toronto film festival, David Gordon Green’s Manglehorn went full throttle with its strange flourishes and ended up as a grating misfire. This year, and Australian comedy drama A Month of Sundays,promises a suburban bucketload of the stuff and it delivers mixed results. Related: Born to be Blue review – Ethan Hawke jazzes up unconventional Chet Baker biopic Continue reading...
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