A Good Movie: Junebug
In keeping with my 2008 New Year’s resolution to only like movies that start with the letters, ‘JUN’ (see Juno)….here’s Junebug. A sweet, independent film about families and the blending of families by marriage. A sophisticated art gallery owner (Madeleine) from Chicago falls in love with a charming man from North Carolina (George) and when she needs to visit North Carolina to sign an artist for her gallery, she and her new husband spend a few days with his working class family. His mother is disapproving & repressed, her other son resentful & uncommunicative, her pregnant daughter-in-law starstruck by the glamorous new wife, and his father mostly silent, although he tends to deliver the most meaningful & poignant lines in the movie (When defending his wife’s taciturn exterior to Madeleine, he says, ‘She’s not like that inside. She hides her real self. Just like everybody else.’) It’s sweet, it’s well-acted, it’s poignant, and it’s well worth seeing. And, the name of movie comes from…?? Well, you’ll just have to watch it and see.