Big eyes (2014)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2014
	Director: Tim Burton
	Actors: Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz
	Country: USA, CDN
	Genre: Drama
	Conditions of visioning: 13.04.2015, Schauburg, OV sneak preview
Synopsis: In the 1950s, Margaret (Adams) was a woman trying to make it on her own after leaving her husband with only her daughter and her paintings. She meets Walter Keane (Waltz) and after a soon marriage, Walter is selling their paintings and quiet Margaret is painting more children with big eyes. But Walter's actually selling her paintings as his own. A clash of financial success and critical failure soon sends Margaret reeling in her life of lies.
Review: The story let me think about the equality of men/women rights as well as about the types of slavery, here a man/master and a woman/slave. This is a modern hot topic as many countries claim to do it but only with hypocrisy, where even recognized women are still paid much less than men for the same job. In the movie one reason for that is her extreme shyness and his real estate character. I liked many things in the directing. The landscape and town pictures looking like paintings; the close-ups on the stereotyped 50s housewife Margaret and the theatrical leader Walter; the casting with some people having indeed big eyes; the light SFX with big eyes in times of trauma. The relationship mother/daughter is not much developped although I felt there a lot of emotional tension. Amy Adams is great as passionate woman containing her emotions and Waltz is using again his theatrical verb as in Django.
Rating: 7 /10