Wakefield (2017)
Directed by Robin Swicord
A man's nervous breakdown causes him to leave his wife and live in his attic for several months.
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If this were any other actor than Cranston (say, if “Mad Men’s” Jon Hamm or “American Beauty” star Kevin Spacey were playing the same role), it would be unbearable.
It taps into a deep vein of American angst at social conformity, explored before by everyone from Henry David Thoreau to “American Beauty.”
She was also nominated for a writing Oscar for her work on David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
From a short story by E. L. Doctorow, the writer-director Robin Swicord, who adapted the screenplays for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Memoirs of a Geisha, among others, has constructed an inspired and compelling film about one man with the courage and daring to walk away from the boring routine of daily life and observe it from a distance, putting into motion what everyone else thinks about but never has the guts to do.
Adapted from an E.L. Doctorow short story published by the New Yorker three months after the release of Robin Swicord ’s “The Jane Austin Book Club,” this follow-up took writer-director Swicord more than eight years to get made (in between, she earned an Oscar nomination for a little movie called “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”).
Primarily a screenwriter (Memoirs of a Geisha, Little Women), Swicord toiled for over a decade on the award-winning The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, on which she shared story credit.
That’s the simple, revealing and darkly comic premise of “Wakefield,” a film by writer (“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”) turned writer-director Robin Swicord, a movie meditation on marriage, family and surviving both by taking the time to examine what’s wrong.
In fact, she’s built a career on it with films ranging from The Curious Case of Benjamin Button all the way to Matilda.
Swicord's writing credits include Little Women, Memoirs of a Geisha, Matilda, and Practical Magic.
From a short story by E. L. Doctorow, the writer-director Robin Swicord, who adapted the screenplays for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Memoirs of a Geisha, among others, has constructed an inspired and compelling film about one man with the courage and daring to walk away from the boring routine of daily life and observe it from a distance, putting into motion what everyone else thinks about but never has the guts to do.
Primarily a screenwriter (Memoirs of a Geisha, Little Women), Swicord toiled for over a decade on the award-winning The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, on which she shared story credit.
She's a solid writer and occasional director with a literary bent - "Memoirs of a Geisha," "The Jane Austen Book Club," the 1994 "Little Women."