Films in Review

Saw Keaton’s #MyWifesRelations. Reflects his life w’ his in-laws the Talmadges, obviously. That situation was dispiriting …

… eventually disastrous. Here, however, he transforms sadness into plain, gleeful, almost immoral roughhousing. Well done!

#MyWifesRelations. Interesting take on poverty & privation. Contrary to often, or usual, the subject doesn’t lead Keaton …

… to pity or activism. No sentiment either, or condescension, Less #GrapesofWrath, more #TobaccoRoad. We need both, methinks.