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Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Golden Exits (2017)

This is a movie about uncomfortable people in uncomfortable situations.  It is set in a small area of Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, and we almost never leave the block. Within a few minutes, the movie has given viewers a frame to put around it: twenty-five year old Australian Naomi takes a job assisting a fortysomething archivist named Nick and reawakening the mistrust of his wife Alyssa, a psychologist, who's still stung by Nick's previous infidelity with younger women.  Naomi is a bit of a self conscious siren who has everyone buzzing around her.  In addition to Nick and Alyssa, she gets an earful from Alyssa's sister, who sees them in an unflattering light, and is altogether too wrapped up in her father's legacy that she doesn't have the time or energy to develop herself.  Naomi looks up a friend of her mother's son, who also falls into her orbit even though he is also married.  It all starts to spin off it's access while we look intently into the lives of ordinary people.

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