In an age when more working people than ever can't afford to feed their families, housing is a luxury and work is more like slavery it's heartening to see a film take on these difficult topics..oh, wait. It didn't. At all. It focused on a privileged white woman, in a privileged white upper class neighbourhood with a privileged white upper class family who experiences social anxiety and some depression. It's difficult to relate to her, given that she's a celebrated architect that can afford a last minute trip to Antarctica, and I kept waiting for this film to make sense to me, but it just made me cringe the longer it went on to the point that I had to mute the last ten minutes. I get that mental health can effect anyone irrespective of material wealth, but I didn't feel that this was fully explored, just glossed over and resolved in a bland and unsatisfying and unlikely way. But god love her, cate tries hard and I liked her character way more when she was slightly bad and I didn't feel like that aspect of her needed to change. Just a weird hallmark film with a weird hallmark ending.
Review of Where'd You Go, Bernadette
