Writer/Director Ned Benson’s The Disappearance of Eleanor
Rigby has an all-star cast, including Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Isabelle
Huppert, William Hurt, Viola Davis, Bill Hader, Ciarán Hinds and Jess Weixler…all
of whom deliver fabulous performances.
It’s a slow-paced, mostly sad story that works because it
is extremely real. You are, soon, forgiving
of the pace as you come to realize that life moves slowly, especially when one
is confronted by events being experienced by the two principals played by Chastain
and McAvoy.
They are a couple, who has lost their infant son and go
their separate ways in an attempt to deal with it. However, neither of their ways is in any way
successful.
To tell you any more would be a disservice to the
film. Just know it is intense, deeply
moving and, ultimately, very loving.
I give The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby a
4 out of 5, but Jessica Chastain gets a 4+.
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