Maggie's plan (2015)

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	Year of first release: 2015
	Director: Rebecca Miller
	Actors: Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke, Julianne Moore
	Country: USA
	Genre: Comedy, Drama
	Conditions of visioning: 21.08.2016, Cinema am Ostertor, German version
Synopsis: Maggie (Gerwig) plans to have a baby on her own via insemination. Problem is that she casually falls in love with John (Hawke), a married man, destroying his volatile marriage to the brilliant and impossible Georgette (Moore). But one daughter and three years later, Maggie is out of love. By suspecting John and Georgette are actually perfect for each other, she has a new plan.
Review: The originality of Gerwig acting is a bomb of emotions and a montain of decisions to take in life. This actress gets back her aura from Frances Ha. She is absolutely wonderful. Her role, her dialogues, her facial and body expressions, her emotions in the voice, her confrontation to life as a whole is the new Eve, the modern woman. To me. Even if only few women would (by luck!) react as Gerwig in this movie, her situations are typical from the women I see around me. The modernity of women is caught and this is just beautiful.  Apart from that the story is quite strange as the synopsis explains but by watching the movie it seems quite natural. Especially because everyone talks as an adult. The only character that gets the childish card is the man. He is so easy to manipulate and so easy to manipulate after he finds out that he has been manipulated! And the worse: men are like this! Hilarious.  The other actors are bluffed by Maggie's plans but finally accept them as these look first rather crazy but finally quite logical. Their reactions and dialogues are nice and natural.  The director managed to take the best of the obvious influence of the actors. Thus the tram was good.
Rating: 7 /10