Oscar nominee Stanley Tucci stars in this romance drama as a man diagnosed with early-onset dementia. Academy Award winner Colin Firth co-stars as his partner of 20 years, comforting the love of his life as they travel across England in their old RV. However, the trip unearths some confronting questions that must be answered before the illness fully takes hold.
Here as ever, Tucci is the most charming of performers. But something about the use of celestial metaphors and, more generally, the treatment of dementia seems heavy-handed. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to make people cry, but calling down the stars while killing your leading man in awful increments are very blunt tools with which to do so, especially in a film so delicate, and you’re left feeling as much manipulated as moved.
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Whatever warmth it leaves you with is rightly undercut with a plunging, unshakeable streak of sorrow.
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Plenty to admire here, if only this tasteful tearjerker lived up to its title with a few more explosive fireworks instead of settling for timid twinkles, ending not with a bang but a whimper.
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A sincere and affecting portrait of two people stoically accepting mortality.
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So obviously structured that it often seems to be imposing meaning on its characters.
Full reviewSupernova (2021) is available to stream in New Zealand now on Google Play and Apple TV and Neon.
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