Ordinary Love movie review by Movie Review Mom

MOVIE TITLE:  Ordinary Love

RATING:  R

LENGTH:    1 hour, 32 minutes

Movie Review Mom GRADE:   A-

IN A NUTSHELL:

This intimate and honest look at how a couple experiences cancer will touch your heart, break it, and uplift it.

TIPS FOR PARENTS:

• As the movie is about breast cancer, you see a lot of shots with a topless woman from the side and back. At the 1:11 mark, you see full-on, topless front view.
• You see a couple going for a rumble in bed with sound effects.
• Kids will be very bored.  Some adults will be too.
• death, funeral, tombstone scenes

THEMES:

• If you’re a woman, get a mammogram this week.
• Life and death
• Hope
• When one person in a family has cancer, the entire family has cancer.
• Grief
• Marriage and friendship
• Fear and courage
• Weakness and strength

THINGS I LIKED:

• I love watching Liam Neeson kick bad-guy butt, but it was nice to see him as a gentle, kind husband.
• Lesley Manville is absolutely fantastic and should receive an Oscar nomination next year for her work in this film.  She gave it her all. She was also outstanding in Phantom Thread .  It was fascinating to watch her go through the ordeal that turned her life upside down, yet in one scene she tells someone she doesn’t think she has changed.
• Some beautiful black and white silhouettes and other vignettes.  Fantastic camera work that displays symbolism.
• It’s a very slow-paced journey.
• The couple bickers about ordinary things in such a loving, humorous way that it feels so real.  Their conversations are about nothing, yet everything.  They show genuine affection and friendship that Liam and Lesley are extremely believable together.
• The script was very thoughtful and never overly sentimental, which it could have been. 
• In the closing credits, you can see that a lot of research went into the writing to be accurate, realistic, and respectful.
• The grey color palette made you really feel the dark cloud that rolled over the couple’s life.

THINGS I DIDN’T LIKE:

• I MUCH prefer subtly. I wish that we didn’t have to see the full-on breasts.  It didn’t add to the story, really.  I already knew what was happening.

INTERESTING LINES:

• “How do you say to someone ‘don’t die’”? –    Tom   (Liam Neeson)

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