Oh fuck. I need two hours back. Olivia could play a cucumber, but the story has no point. The trailer shows us one thing and we get a whole different movie.
The weird family, the flashbacks, the story is there, but it was so poorly edited/written.

I wanted to love it but I agree with others that the writing and editing/pacing did not work for me. Stellar performances from a powerhouse cast weren't enough to make me give a shit about whatever the story was trying to say. I like slow burns, I like character pieces, I like messy people, but somehow all of these elements never gelled together for me in this film.

Maggie Gyllenhall's debut film, features Olivia Colman in yet another exceptional work. The movie delivers a complexity by addressing the feminine and women's guilt for the choices between personal life and motherhood.

i'm sorry, but too much wasted potential. i mean look at that cast! A+ stars appearing for 2min in a boring film. I think the story was just too ambitious for Maggie's first time, the movie is just bad for 1h and half and then attempts to add dept into it but it doesn't work.
Apart from Olivia and Jessie, the whole cast was wasted specially Dakota who tries sooooo hard in this film, it's one of her best performances but too bad the movie is bland and empty and just boring.
Yeah motherhood can be a fucking nightmare and the troubles with it deserve a better exploration than that of this movie attempts to do.

The story was just okay but it’s Colman who lifts this movie above an average rating.

As a childless male I am unqualified to comment directly on the subject matter, but here are some high-level general thoughts:

- Phenomenal first feature from Maggie Gyllenhaal and I hope she continues to make whatever she wishes
- I actually **loved** the editing and writing here and thought it was top notch and would not be surprised if this landed an editing nomination
- Jessie Buckley and Olivia Colman are so insanely talented it is scary
- I feel this is a fairly honest depiction of the struggle to balance work, life, handling the (perceived) lions share of parental responsibility, personal happiness that may not be defined by being a parent, and a sobering reality that just because you have 2 adorable children does not equate to perceived happiness in the moment
- Not everyone knows what they're doing from the jump and it takes years along with some some hard truths and brutal failures to figure your shit out. And when you think you have it under control, you still may see that you don't

One of the most boring movies I've seen this year. Such a waste of time.:wastebasket::poop::face_with_symbols_over_mouth:

So there's.... some mothers on a holiday, somewhere in Greece? I guess? Certain shots/settings kinda reminded me of a few Poirot episodes with David Suchet, which is weird since those are set in the 30s. But other than that... I'm actually not even sure I recall any particularly nice scenic shot. And the rest? Just... I don't know. A few puzzle pieces that never really get together into an actual picture, there's little to no cohesion to whatever story there's supposed to be in this. And for that, it's also too long. Looks like a common theme in 2021 movies. Shame though, because there are quite a few great names in the cast; but I had a hard time even trying to keep up with who's who in terms of the characters, amidst all the flashbacks.
Might be the book's a lot better, should probably read that - can't be much worse, at any rate.

I found this to be incredibly unsettling and unnerving. I wanted to shake these characters from start to finish, nothing they did made any sense to me. However, I do think that’s exactly the direction the film was going for, so it’s successful in that sense.

I couldn’t settle on a score for this because i didn’t exactly like it but I can recognise its merits.

The pseudo documentary style serves an intelligent story pretty badly. Colman’s character isn’t likeable (she’s often impossible to understand) which is in itself fine but the eventual payoff is a long time coming and we’re expected to be extremely patient with almost nothing happening in the meantime.

While watching this film I couldn't help but think of Gyllenhaal's character in the (extremely underrated) show "The Deuce". In that show she was a prostitute-turned-director and in many of the scenes in the movie had to do with the idea of how different film would be if made by a woman. I know that the show was fiction but I couldn't help but think back to that idea. This film starred women and seemed to have a very different feel to it than most movies that I've seen. It helps that the three leads are amazing - Colman is her usual stellar self and Buckley has cemented her place as a top actor. But beyond all of that this film really resonated with me in that I am a parent of three children and at times I feel exactly as they do. I feel overwhelmed and (worse) I feel like I have lost a piece of myself. It really is a fantastic movie.

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Meh. Slow and never gets going. Uncomfortably odd in places. Not sure they quite pulled off what they intended.

And what was the point of this film, 2 hours of nothing … if this is the level of film that Olivia Colman has to subject herself too I wouldn’t bother making anymore without reading the scripts first .. this film is just awful and is as bad as they gets.