Where'd You Go, Bernadette

Filme fraco, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas são fracas, a história é fraca, o elenco é fraco, e ninguém ajuda a melhorar o filme, os personagens são fracos, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores e relevantes, para fazer o filme ser bom.

Just the right amount of comedy, quirkiness, and light hearted drama that digs deep into what the main characters are thinking. Tied together nicely in the end. I don’t always want to be bogged down by drama or watch a comedy with no depth. I just want to sit and enjoy a movie where I can laugh and cry with the characters. I wish more movies were like this these days.

Cate is fantastic as usual, but the film itself is meh. We never really get to know the characters. Having read the book I thought it would make a great film, but they left too much out in the way of character development, tension, and drama. Rather than delving inside the sad realities of agoraphobia, a happy family experiences a speed bump in the road...okay, whatever. And the mystery of where Bernadette goes is solved immediately, rather than sticking to the title and keeping us on the edge of our seats.

This is such a beautiful movie of recent times! Totally disagree with all the negative reviews out there! Unbelievably simplistic and relatable movie with so much class! Cate Blanchett has again done so much justice to her role. Very heartwarming and refreshing adaptation of the novel! Simply loved it.

En sí no es mala pero no es lo mejor del director de School of Rock y la trilogía con Ethan Hawke y Julie Delphy; el pequeño problema aquí es el desarrollo de la trama, un poco lento. Sin embargo, la actuación de Cate Blanchett la hace soportable.

Gets off to a good start, then slides into daft implausible nonsense.

Based on the best selling novel by Maria Semple, this was a box office failure and received bad to mixed reviews upon its release; however, while certainly not an overwhelming success, it isn't really half bad. It is often as eccentric as a Wes Anderson movie and sometimes as whimsical as something like THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY. Blanchett excels in making Bernadette Fox simultaneously vulnerable, exasperating, sympathetic and outrageous. It's a memorable character and performance, and she is backed by a strong supporting cast, most notably Kristen Wiig as Bernadette's neighbor and arch nemesis. Also very appealing is Nelson in her film debut as Bernadette's teenage daughter. As I said above, if you like Wes Anderson movies, particularly something like THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS, you're probably apt to enjoy this more than the average Joe.

Thematically its a mess, but there are some fantastic scenes. Ultimately Blanchett saves this movie, giving one of her best performances here.

Just watched this film on Amazon Prime. Based on the novel of the same name by Maria Semple, the film charts the life of Bernadette Fox (played by Cate |Blanchett), an architect who was renowned decades ago and won the prestigious MacArthur Genius Grant (an actual award). This is told in an Internet documentary. After the house that won the award is bought by a misanthropic neighbor who has it torn down, Bernadette moves to Seattle and gives up architecture and becomes a recluse an agoraphobe. In a brilliantly filmed dialogue that cuts back and forth between Bernadette talking to an old architectural mentor (played by Laurence Fishburne) from her Los Angeles days and her husband and a psychiatrist talking about Bernadette's problems, Her old friend tells her her problem is that she is a creative individual who gave up her creativity. She needs to get back to doing what she loves. The rest of the film elaborates on how she eventually finds her path back to architecture. It includes a trip to Antarctica. The character of Bernadette reminded me somewhat of the character of Howard Roark in The Fountainhead, an architect passionate about his work who pursues hid craft with uncompromising integrity. The trauma caused by the destruction of her prize winning house caused Bernadette to adopt a Dominique Francon state of mind, where she gives up on architecture because the world isn't good enough for her creativity. And the story ends with Bernadette redeemed and finding herself again. I though this was a great movie, brilliantly plotted and acted.

Personally, I love this movie. I also used to be an architect turned stay-at-home mom married to a man with an absorbing career. I love that this is a positive movie with people coming to better understand each other. It has so many good messages all around, and it also has a bit of a goofy side. Also love that the main character's reaching out to find herself again doesn't mean that her relationships fall apart, but instead are flexible.