Dinklage plays a composer who writes an opera about his affair with tugboat captain Marisa Tomei, in a comedy from Rebecca Miller that has something of Normal People
is Steven Lauddem, a celebrated opera composer, difficult, demanding and now creatively blocked, married to fashionable New York therapist Patricia , a gorgeous fashion plate with a love of neatness and an obsession with nuns. Steven is stepfather to her teen son Julian who is dating Tereza , whose mum Magdalena is the Lauddems’ cleaner.
The crisis arrives when Steven has a fling with Katrina, a tugboat captain with a romantic love addiction , and their bizarre one-afternoon-stand encounter inspires an opera which is none too complimentary about Katrina. Tereza is also in deep trouble when her technically-underage relationship is discovered by coldly disciplinarian stepdad Trey , a pompous nitwit who likes dressing up in Confederate military garb in historical re-enactments for the “period rush”.
It all canters along cordially and amusingly enough, ingeniously tying up Katrina’s destiny with everyone else’s, though maybe it’s a little fastidious – like Patricia – about hitting the laughs. And the final moments emphasise a dreamy sort of healing and togetherness when another sort of film would have given us a real-time wedding scene and an explicit comeuppance for the awful Trey. But it’s a likeable confection, and a pleasure to see Marisa Tomei on very good form.
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