A Date For Mad Mary
One of the most deeply informed films, with all the complexities of human nature explored perhaps best through the lens of Irish women. Specific to a time and place but universal in layers of friendship, family, platonic and physical love, the constraints of conformity on behavior and relationships and the price characters pay for willfully stepping outside those constraints.
Did I mention that the film begins as Mary is released from jail after roughing up a woman in a bar in her home town of Drogheda, an industrial and port town in County Louth on the east coast of Ireland. And that Mary has issues, that are sympathetically surfaced during the 122-minute film. The title? Mary, upon release from jail, is tasked to find a date for the wedding of her best friend Charlene who's about to be married.
The linchpin holding it all together is the relationship between Mary and her musician friend Jess whose truth telling to Mary is a device to take the story to its most elemental level and suck us all in with its power because, as with Mary and Jess, there is a piece of vulnerability in each of us,
I have been recommending this movie since watching yesterday…… brilliant acting by a bunch of women … mostly newcomers
Interesting that this film script grew out of a play which the director massaged prior to attempting to make this movie….
Great interplay between all the main characters
I will watch this again
Posted by: Bernard | March 18, 2022 at 04:03 PM