The Lovers (1958)
Directed by Louis Malle
A shallow, provincial wife finds her relationship with her preoccupied husband strained by romantic notions, leading her further towards Paris and the country wilderness.
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And playwright/actor Tracy Letts (“The Lovers,” TV’s “Divorce”) tries his hand at warm and cute as “the good cop” dad, the one there to comfort and spoil his daughter and encourage the dreams her mom is hellbent on crushing.
But in recent years he’s also become one of film’s finest character actors, most recently in Indignation and The Lovers.
It's 2002 and her dad Larry (Tracy Letts, "The Lovers") is suffering in the current economic climate.
She lives with her intense, overbearing mother Marion (Laurie Metcalf, TV’s “Getting On”) and her doting nice-guy father Larry (Tracy Letts, “The Lovers”); her brother Miguel (Jordan Rodrigues, TV’s “The Fosters”) and his girlfriend Shelly (Marielle Scott, “Yield Right”) live there too.
Lady Bird’s father Larry is played by Tracy Letts, Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner and last seen onscreen in The Lovers .
I haven’t seen him in much aside from The Lovers and Lady Bird (because he’s more of a theater actor and I don’t know much about theater), but he really impressed me here.
There is such a truth in her little details, in her reactions to cruelty, to false manliness, nature, life, death - everything - that is overpowering, that makes her one of the most tragic and contemporary characters of modern cinema, and another contribution to The Woman as a Modern Hero in Search of Love (see "Another Sky," "The Lovers," "Hiroshima, Mon Amour," "The Savage Eye," etc., etc.).