![]() ![]() We're used to criminals neglecting their molls, and I'm Your Woman declares its allegiance right in the title. Admittedly, some will find this to be rather boring and a lacking perspective, but I thought the approach of director/co-writer Julia Hart (Stargirl) was to highlight the perspective of a character often taken for granted and forgotten in gangster cinema and its celebration of doomed antiheroes. Every scene when she's been left alone and sees a car coming closer, every knock on the door, it raises the suspense because your mind, like hers, is questioning everything. We as the audience are left very much in the dark with Jean, and this precious little information allows us to very strongly feel her paranoia and anxiety. He tasks Cal (Arinze Kene) to drive Jean and her baby out of town, watch over her, and wait until the heat dies down or everyone else just ends up dead.Īnd with that, the movie is off to a gallop and Jean doesn't know what's happened to her life, only that it's bad, and she doesn't know where her husband may be, or even if he's alive, but she's told that people will be coming for her to get to him or to punish him, and so she must be whisked away in the middle of the night into hiding. One of his associates barges into her home in the middle of the night, bloodied, and tells her that Eddie is gone and she needs to likewise be leaving in a hurry. ![]() Another day, her husband goes out with some friends and never comes back. Where did this baby come from? Jean cannot say but she chooses to raise this child as her own son. One day Eddie (Bill Heck) comes home with a baby that he declares is theirs. Jean (Rachel Brosnahan) is married to a man who she knows does some very bad things. ![]() It's a refreshing and modern take that works as moody paranoia thriller just as much as it does a subversion of them. I'm Your Woman imagines a typical crime story but from a very human perspective, focusing on the wife who has to deal with the confusion and fallout from her husband's misdeeds. We've been inured to gangster cinema for decades and love following the criminal antics of bad men without fully thinking about the collateral damage on the periphery of their story. This dichotomy, this vulnerable, this strong woman appealed to me.I'm Your Woman does for the gangster/crime genre what You Were Never Really Here did for the loner revenge thriller, namely demystify popular tropes and find a humanity often missing below the surface. But at some point she was in Jean’s shoes. She was strong and confident now and fully in her power. She was living a normal life, and was pulled back into it. Says Blake on what drew her to Hart and Horowitz’s screenplay: “She had a similar situation as Jean’s, but she figured out how to get herself out of it. “It explores a conversation about motherhood that I had never saw on screen and talks about trauma in a new way.”īlake plays a woman who is connected to the past of Jean’s husband, and like Brosnahan’s character has also sweated the rich life of being a mobster’s wife. “I love that Jean’s story is about a quiet woman who becomes an unlikely action hero in her own story,” says Brosnahan, who plays a different type of glass-ceiling crasher after her award-winning turn as comedienne Midge Maisel in Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. And, so, as we were watching those back to back, I was just thinking about those women, and to see how they felt what was happening to them that was the germ of the idea of creating in I’m Your Woman.“ And when the action gets going, the women and the children are shepherded off to safety and disappear from those films. She adds: “ you had these incredible actresses playing these three-dimensional, interesting characters, but they’re only in a handful of scenes. I probably would have been struck by the female characters anyway, but I was doubly struck by them having become a mother.”Ĭontenders Film: Deadline’s Complete Coverage “We were watching a bunch of ’70s and early ’80s crime drama around the time we also became parents,'” Hart says during the movie’s panel at Deadline’s Contenders Film awards-season event, where she was joined by Brosnahan, Horowitz, Kene and co-star Marsha Stephanie Blake. ![]()
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