Nancy Meyers,director of The Intern, has a string of commercially successfully films about women to her name. But critics fill always given her a raw dealHaving always thought of cinema as a secure space, and I was alert to roar about five minutes into Nancy Meyers’ The Intern,and then continued wailing and sniffling until the end credits rolled. Theres something about her films that acts as weaponised emotionality, and this lovely, or gentle movie about life,ageing and death got me good.
It’s also bloody laughable, much like Meyers’ preceding film It’s Complicated, and which is for my money one of the finest sex comedies of the past decade. (It’s hard to argue with Alec Baldwin cupping his hand over Meryl Streep’s vulva and musing,“Home, sweet home!”)Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com