She Came To Me

Rating TBA
Dir: Rebecca Miller
US, 2023, 102 min
Anne Hathaway, Marisa Tomei, Peter Dinklage

“A creatively blocked opera composer gains a muse in the form of a female tugboat captain. A sanctimonious court stenographer threatens to bring statutory rape charges against the boyfriend of his 16-year-old stepdaughter. The composer’s psychiatrist wife realises that her passion for aesthetic minimalism is, in fact, a religious calling… There is a bruised charm to this screwball-inspired New York story. The combination of a first-rate cast, a rippling, frequently witty score and a highly-strung, madcap plot – which itself wouldn’t be out of place in a comic opera – makes for a quirky, offbeat spin on the relationship drama. It’s Miller’s first film since her comic love triangle Maggie’s Plan… She Came To Me, with its multiple storylines and locations, two separate original operas and a scene-stealing French bulldog, is a markedly more ambitious work… both are linked by Miller’s knack for creating believably messy relationship dynamics and pushing them to the very brink of credibility, to droll comic effect…. She Came To Me is a low-key crowd-pleaser.” —Wendy Ide, Screen Daily