My wife and I just saw “Away We Go”, the new movie with Maya Rudolph.
We thought it was pretty good.
One thing was odd, however. One section of the movie takes place in Montreal. However, it’s obvious that the scenes were not filmed there. Indeed the credits make no mention of Montreal.
As a former resident of Montreal this was somewhat disappointing. I was kind of looking forward to seeing some familiar-looking street scenes. Especially since it’s rare that an American film takes place in that city.
It’s a little strange because it’s common for an American film to be shot in Montreal but take place elsewhere, and here we have the opposite.
I just saw Away We Go yesterday and I thought it was a sweet, funny movie.
There is one thing I don’t understand about the movie, however:
[spoiler]What house was that at the end of the movie? Was it supposed to be Verona’s parent’s house? But earlier in the movie Verona and her sister were talking about their parent’s house and said that it was rented out. The house at the end was clearly empty, and looked like it had been empty for a long time.
Verona also said that they would, when young, hang plastic fruit from her father’s tree, and there was a tree with plastic fruit when they turned in the driveway of the house.
Did I miss something? Or is this a problem with the story?
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Thanks,
J.
It was Verona’s parent’s house. I’ve seen it twice and I don’t remember it being said that the house was rented out, but I might have missed the line. I hope to see it again before it leaves the theaters and I’ll try to listen closely to the dialogue in that scene with her sister in the jacuzzi.
I love this movie with all my heart, and then some. Since I have yet to see Tarantino’s film, and Where The Wild Things Are, and others to come this fall/winter, I can’t say for sure, but this could very well end up being my favorite film of the year. It’ll be close to the top, for sure.
Ed, if I had to choose something that was less than perfect about the movie, it would be the Montreal section. The writers/filmmakers could have chosen any city in the northeast, so why choose Montreal if they’re not going to film anything in the city? I’ve been there too and was looking forward to seeing some of the landmarks, but no, it could have been anywhere. Plus, they were all set to move there to have the baby until the brother’s marital woes intervened. You can’t just pick up and move to Montreal on a whim, right? Isn’t it a long, involved process and you have to have skills that Canada wants and needs?
But, other than that (and the fact that I wanted to slap Allison Janney’s character), I thought it was a gloriously wonderful little film; quiet, sweet, funny (mostly in a smile and grin way, rather than a laugh-out-loud guffaw way), warm, loving, just beautiful in heart and soul, without being smarmy or cloying. I love that the couple truly loved each other, were each other’s rock, and the writers/filmmakers didn’t feel they had to introduce any marital conflicts to up the tension factor. It was the anti-Revolutionary Road.