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Sundance Review: Emma Thompson And Daryl McCormack In 'Good Luck To You, Leo Grande' - Deadline

Sundance Review: Emma Thompson And Daryl McCormack In 'Good Luck To You, Leo Grande' - Deadline

Sundance Review: Emma Thompson And Daryl McCormack In 'Good Luck To You, Leo Grande' - Deadline
Jan 23, 2022 1 min, 43 secs

Even in its truncated virtual Covid-afflicted form last year, the Sundance Film Festival was remarkably able to debut several movies that a year later we are still talking about in the Oscar conversation including CODA, Jockey, Passing, Flee, and Mass. Maybe this success was due to the fact they all had one word titles, but more realistically it was because despite all the drawbacks, the fest honchos picked very well and now awards voters are enjoying the riches.  As I have been seeing one film after another in this year’s (virtual) fest I find myself looking for that breakout movie or performance which with the right distribution we will be talking about still a year from now.

There have been some promising performances so far from the likes of Julianne Moore, Bill Nighy and a couple still to come later, but the wow factor really hit me in seeing Emma Thompson in the British film Good Luck To You, Leo Grande, premiering today at Sundance, where to put it mildly, she knocks it out of the park.

Her co-star Daryl McCormack  in this two-hander is equally good in the movie which centers on a 60ish widowed mother of two and religious studies teacher who hires a sex worker for a tryst in a hotel room.

Thompson plays Nancy Stokes (real name? don’t think so ) whose nice but uneventful marriage of 31 years to a good but unexciting man ended with his death a couple of years ago.

This is a character study for both Thompson and McCormack to dive into with abandon , and that they do erasing inhibitions physically, but adding them up in other ways that makes this sexual cat and mouse game never less than fascinating to watch where it takes us – and them – next.  It is a movie about shedding the past, forging intimacy on more than one level, making human connections, and discovering a whole new you.

For Thompson she better be prepared for another awards go-round come a year from now.

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