Word: anna
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Keaton skillfully portrays Anna as a woman in search of emotional direction in her life. Although her Anna has a complete and vibrant relationship with Molly, she has never felt romantically fulfilled. We empathize with Anna when she tells a friend about the emptiness of her sex life with Brian and feel her pain when Molly leaves to spend the weekend with her father, just as we later sense the sudden, expansive joy that she finds with...
When the movie opens, the adult Anna is narrating scenes from her childhood family vacations. Her memories center around her unmarried aunt, Babe, who has shocked and alienated the family by becoming pregnant. "In her presence it just seemed like anything was possible," Anna muses. "I wanted to be like her. I wanted to be a passionate person...
...Anna meets Leo in a Harvard Square laundromat. (Not least appealing in the film is its local color--several scenes were filmed on location in Harvard Square and Boston where the story takes place. Look for people you know...
THROUGH her relationship with Leo, it seems as though Anna will finally be able to become the passionate, carefree person she wants to be. But the dream is shattered when her ex-husband, Brian (James Naughton), accuses Leo of sexually molesting Molly (Asia Vieria), their six-year old child, and brings a custody suit against his ex-wife...
Unlike in many films, the human relationships here are complex and multi-faceted. Anna and Leo are in love, but there is more to it than sex and holding hands. There are also misunderstandings, anger, frustration and sometimes doubt. At one point, Leo criticizes Anna's attitude toward her life, saying she is not passionate about anything in the way he is about his sculpture. In defensive anger, she rails against him, crying that she doesn't need to be criticized "by someone as lucky as you are. Especially from someone as lucky as you, with the good fortune...