Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Common in All About Nina. Photo credit: Thomas Scott Stanton. Courtesy of The Orchard ©
All About Nina focuses on a woman trying to break into the male-dominated world of stand-up comedy, but Eva Viva’s feature film debut is really about a woman living with the legacy of abuse. One of the odd things about this film is that it is essentially built like a romantic comedy about the gifted but struggling comic, but then makes turns that are neither comic nor romantic but raw and real. What rescues this uneven, head-twisting film is Mary Elizabeth Winstead’s wickedly funny yet heartbreaking performance as the comedian, Nina.
There is good and bad in All About Nina but the intentions are good. It starts out more dryly comedic but switches to darker tones as we learn more about Nina.
On stage, Nina is bold, with bitingly-funny, frankly-sexual routines delivered with bravura.
All About Nina focuses on a woman trying to break into the male-dominated world of stand-up comedy, but Eva Viva’s feature film debut is really about a woman living with the legacy of abuse. One of the odd things about this film is that it is essentially built like a romantic comedy about the gifted but struggling comic, but then makes turns that are neither comic nor romantic but raw and real. What rescues this uneven, head-twisting film is Mary Elizabeth Winstead’s wickedly funny yet heartbreaking performance as the comedian, Nina.
There is good and bad in All About Nina but the intentions are good. It starts out more dryly comedic but switches to darker tones as we learn more about Nina.
On stage, Nina is bold, with bitingly-funny, frankly-sexual routines delivered with bravura.
- 10/12/2018
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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