![]() ![]() Woodley plays Daphne, a young woman of 30 or so who’s broken up with her devoted boyfriend, quit her job and moved back into her sister’s poolhouse with a vow to stay away from men and alcohol for six months. She is an ideal actress for Doremus - and while “Endings, Beginnings” didn’t receive anywhere near as much acclaim as his 2011 gem “Like Crazy” after its TIFF premiere, it is in some ways his most satisfying film since then. It takes some patience to appreciate, but the director has an ace in the hole with Woodley, who since her breakthrough with 2011’s “The Descendants” has been delivering unaffected, quietly naturalistic performances and coming across as a real person even in films like the “Divergent” series. ![]() “Endings, Beginnings” is also a film that asks viewers to work for its small pleasures, to sink into the world that’s sketched by actors improvising much of their dialogue while working from a script by Doremus and Jardine Libaire. Caveat emptor, I suppose.Īlso Read: All the Hollywood Films Arriving on Demand Early Because of the Coronavirus Then again, her isolation turns into a fairly steamy love triangle between Woodley, Jamie Dornan and Sebastian Stan, an option that’s not exactly available to anybody who’s stuck at home watching. This is an indie drama about a young woman who’s chosen to self-isolate, and who doesn’t need a virus to nudge her into aimlessness and melancholy the situation is different, but the feelings might hit home for more than a few viewers these days. Granted, there’s nothing about the coronavirus or anything like it in Doremus’ “Endings, Beginnings,” which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last fall but lost its scheduled May 1 theatrical opening to the pandemic and is instead opening digitally on Friday. Are you feeling aimless, adrift and sad in Week 5 of self-isolation? Then Drake Doremus and Shailene Woodley have a movie for you. ![]()
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