The Door in the Floor …with Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger
Imagine a gorgeous, wooden, stylish, arty beach house in the Hamptons with an outdoor shower, a lawn going to the beach and a painters studio And in the middle of it all, Jeff Bridges wondering around in a caftan , drinking wine and tucking into huge slabs of cheese, painting, writing and carrying on like a big, charismatic cheeky monkey. Oh, what a visual feast this movie is! Oh the house! the furniture! the photography and the clothes! The big spunk Jeff Bridges! So what if he looks fat and old and middle aged (don’t we all?). The New York Times says ‘Jeff Bridges offers perhaps the wittiest and richest piece of screen acting by an American man so far this year “ (and that was last year) Warning: it is not a romantic comedy. Does it have romance ? Yes! Does it have violence? no (if you don’t count a crazy woman chasing Jeff Bridges down the street with a knife).Is this funny? Yes (if you count a crazy woman chasing Jeff Bridges down the street). Is it beautifully written and directed? Yes and Yes. An adaptation of a John Irving book ‘A widow for a year’ it is a quirky, deep,tragic and sometimes funny story about “ a long-married couple still reeling from the deaths, some years earlier, of their two teenage sons. Their 4-year-old daughter, Ruth born after the car accident that killed her brothers, but rather than help her parents move beyond their grief she traps them inside it, and herself as well. ” But don’t get put off by the sad story, just read these reviews instead: : “ a film to wrap around yourself like a blanket, huddling from life’s harshness and tasting its riches.”.
“ A beautifully acted examination of the bedeviling and perversely inspiring legacy of family tragedy, it’s one of the most sophisticated American films of the year.” OR “The richly rewarding film is funny, sexy, tragic, touching and sometimes kind of sweetly bizarre”
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