Synopsis
A young woman witnesses a bus accident, and is caught up in the aftermath, where the question of whether or not it was intentional affects many people's lives.
Votre Filmothèque
Cast
- Anna PaquinLisa Cohen
- J. Smith-CameronJoan Cohen
- Mark RuffaloGerald Maretti
- Jeannie BerlinEmily Smith
- Jean RenoRamon Cameron
- John Gallagher Jr.Darren Rodifer
- Allison JanneyMonica Patterson
- Kieran CulkinPaul Hirsch
- Cyrus HernstadtCurtis
- Matt DamonAaron Caije
Recommandations
- 100
Time Out
And though not all of Lonergan's conceits work on a scene-by-scene basis (an upper-crust womanizer played by Jean Reno skews a bit too close to caricature), the film has a cumulative power-solidified by a devastating opera-house finale-that's staggering. This is frayed-edges filmmaking at its finest. - 80
Movieline
It's not a film that's easy to love, but like a song you at first can't stand but then end up humming all day, it works its way past your defenses and curls in close. - 70
Village Voice
It's less successful as a human drama than as a near-Brechtian exercise in what human drama looks and sounds like - a distanced but often car-crash compelling portrait of a teen as an unfinished being. - 70
Time
Lonergan didn't bite off more than he could chew with Margaret - this is his personal moral gymnasium - but he did bite off more than others might want to chew. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
Lonergan's dialogue can sweep you up in a whoosh of personality and ideas, but it's hard to see what, apart from ego, convinced him that this story was so epic. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
Fine performances and bristling language compel in this overlong, often off-putting but well-observed New York story. - 50
Observer
A 2½-hour art film that is something of a well-intentioned mess. - 50
Variety
This unwieldy drama of conscience in the wake of tragedy is hyperarticulate but rarely eloquent, full of wrenchingly acted scenes that lack credible motivation or devolve into shrill hectoring.
