The Fabelmans is one of Steven Spielberg's most beautiful films Review: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
, now approaching 80, looks back at a loosely fictionalised version of his own life.
Sammy Fabelman , Spielberg’s version of himself, is a smart but nervous young man with a fearlessly creative soul and endless curiosity. He is also emotionally inept and resentful as any teen is prone to be: a young man who both loves and bristles at his dreamy mother for her lack of groundedness.
Stymied and frustrated by her circumstances, she encourages her children in their artistic pursuits, delighting in Sammy and his sisters’ home video experiments. On paper, the character might seem like a rote unhappy housewife stereotype, but she is breathed into brittle, bittersweet life by Williams, whether she’s dancing in car headlights or falling headlong for a family friend . At times, her wounded performance has echoes of the great Gena Rowlands.
In the thick of it all, Sammy’s growing obsession with filming at home becomes the tool that reveals how his parents’ marriage dissolves — and the sideways glances and brushing hands between his mother and a man who isn’t her husband.
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