Film Review: Margaret
Every person she interacts with gets 'burned." That's how I see the Lisa Cohen character after she witnessed a bus accident. Sometimes it's irritating to see her doing her stuff on screen. But this doesn't mean the movie is bad. In fact, it's good despite some minor flaws in editing. Lisa's existence seems something like a "life on the edge." She's hopeless, strident, and alienated, like a floating weed. And Anna Paquin, in one of the best performances last year, gives a knockout portrayal of this irritating character. The rest of the cast are also great, with special mention of Mark Ruffalo (in his brief appearance) and the actress who portrayed Lisa's mother.
The premise of the film can make a good novel. The title Margaret has been taken from a line of the poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins called Spring and Fall that the character portrayed by Matthew Broderick reads in a literature class Lisa Cohen attends. The first line of the poem reads: Margaret, are you grieving Over Goldengrove unleaving? And the last line: ... It is Margaret you mourn for.
Rating: 4.0/4.0
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