BEATRIZ AT DINNER
Directed by Miguel Arteta
Screenplay by Mike White
Starring Salma Hayek; Connie Britton; John Lithgow
Beatriz who is a massage therapist is stuck at a house of one of her customers/friends, house until her car gets fixed. Thus she is now going to have to stay for a dinner planned that night. Then shit hits the fan.
Well. This film is kinda just annoying.
Everyone is annoying:
Doug played by John Lithgow. It is an obnoxious person. He the business man who cares about one thing ...making money. He laughs at everything else or everybody else. He is allowed to be that way. He is allowed to live his life that way. I do not like it but he is who he is. After all that being said ...it is a wonderful performance.
Connie Britton as Cathy the homeowner. She and her female friends tell you a lot about them when before the dinner they say they feel bad for leaked photos of a young female star but then pass the photo around and then laugh. She is not a good person.
Then I get to the star Beatriz played by Hayek. I think we are suppose to feel bad for her. I understand. Her goat is harassed. Her car is broken down. She is stuck having a dinner with a bunch of obnoxious assholes. Yes it is a shitty situation for her. However there is something about being gracious. There is a way to do things instead of hollering and stomping. We have all been in that situation before...you bite your tongue, be a grownup, try and cut out early. Then on the way home you say I do not want to see those people again. You just do not make a dinner party more uncomfortable by blurting out things. With all that being said it makes the whole film uncomfortable to watch, because no one is pleasant!!
So 1 1/2 out of 5 for Beatriz At Dinner...only worth watching is for John Lithgow's performance.
From the shadows as always thanks for your time.
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