It’s Complicated — For Middle-Aged Women
IT’S COMPLICATED
STARRING MERYL STREEP AND ALEC BALDWIN
Photograph Courtesy of Universal Pictures
December 18, 2009 — “Nancy Meyers may be a singular figure in Hollywood — may, in fact, be the most powerful female writer-director-producer currently working — not that there’s much competition,” writes Daphne Merkin in The New York Times Magazine.
“Meyers’s new film, It’s Complicated, will open on Christmas Day — itself a sign of high studio expectations. The movie is in many ways a variation on the theme of Something’s Gotta Give in its hyperattunement to the upper-middle-class zeitgeist, especially as concerns the unpredictable dance of the sexes and the ways in which the tempo can speed up when least expected.”
Meryl Streep is Jane, a professionally successful divorced mother of three who runs a flourishing Santa Barbara bakery and seems content to be on her own when romance sticks its big foot back in the doorway to her life. Jane is the sort of middle-aged woman other middle-aged women can relate to without feeling compromised; she’s witty and good-looking and worries about her ’saggy’ left eyelid while at the same time, as the script has it, being the ‘type of person who kind of makes fun of people who get plastic surgery’.” Continue reading…
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