Leslie Rowlands (Andrea Riseborough) is a single mother and a drunk in West Texas. It's six years after $190k in lotto winnings. She wasted it all and is completely broke. She gets thrown out of her motel home. Her drinking ruptures all of her remaining relationships. Motel manager Sweeney (Marc Maron) takes pity on her and gives her a job.
This is a micro indie. It was off my radar until Andrea Riseborough gets her Oscar nomination. I'm a completist at heart and it would be odd to not watch this. The story itself is relatively straight forward. It's a bit long at two hours. It is all about Riseborough's performance. She's a pretty actress who always disappears into her roles. That's what she does here. It's great drunk acting and that's deceptively hard. She's a complicated character and a rather awful character for the first part. The only question is whether she's worthy of the nomination. I will have to check out Till before my final decision. Aside from that, I would probably pick her over Michelle Williams who is not really the lead in that movie. She's likely worth a top five.
This is a micro indie. It was off my radar until Andrea Riseborough gets her Oscar nomination. I'm a completist at heart and it would be odd to not watch this. The story itself is relatively straight forward. It's a bit long at two hours. It is all about Riseborough's performance. She's a pretty actress who always disappears into her roles. That's what she does here. It's great drunk acting and that's deceptively hard. She's a complicated character and a rather awful character for the first part. The only question is whether she's worthy of the nomination. I will have to check out Till before my final decision. Aside from that, I would probably pick her over Michelle Williams who is not really the lead in that movie. She's likely worth a top five.