Susan Sarandon anchors an ensemble story featuring Sam Neil and Kate Winslet in Roger Michell's 'Blackbird.'
). While the family strives to create the perfect weekend for Lily, complete with Christmas dinner, the truth must always come out, and Lily’s death adds a layer of urgency to every secret.among many others, is a skilled and versatile director, able to genre jump while always putting character first. He’s a sort of master at dinner scenes, and the one that anchors “Blackbird” is breathtaking.
Intimate moments, both delicate and bruising, are captured with an honesty and plausibility that prevents the film from ever becoming too treacly or maudlin, with a cooler tone that trends toward the logical and the existential, rather than the sentimental. That allows Lily to use aphorisms that border on cliché, like, “love is all there is,” which feels different when declared in the middle of a family feud hours before her assisted suicide.
The core truth at the center of “Blackbird” is Lily’s agency in all of this, every choice her own. Sarandon is perfect in her embodiment of this fierce yet vulnerable woman whose spirit never wavers, even as her body does. She’s supported by the performances around her, including Lindsay Duncan, as her lifelong best friend, who gets one powerful monologue, as is required by law , while Neill’s presence bathes the atmosphere with an aura of calm decency.
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