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| Felicity Jones and Guy Pearce - Breathe In |
Aspirations and reality, frustrated ambition, disconnection and a sense of entrapment are the critical themes explored in Breathe In from director and screenwriter, Drake Doremus. Set in a small community in Connecticut in the United States, the film story line centres on the life of high school music teacher, Keith Reynolds (Guy Pearce), a former rock musician now classical music cellist and his family. Reynolds lives a standard middle class life with his cookie-jar-collector wife Meg and his sports oriented daughter Lauren. He plays part-time for a New York Symphony Orchestra and yearns to have be a permanent member of the Orchestra so he can leave teaching. Into this situation comes British foreign exchange student and classical musician, Sophie (Felicity Jones) who not only is accomplished in her field of music but understands the rigours and fears of the concert performer. She also seeks escape and is drawn to Keith on several levels and the two almost start a relationship and run off together, just as discovery by Megan and Lauren occurs.
This is an intimate family drama film with good understated scripting and consummate performances by Guy Pearce and Felicity Jones. The seemingly perfect suburban family is seen as a facade and the subject of frustrated ambition is poignantly highlighted - all the more so as Keith wins a permanent position with the Symphony Orchestra with Sophie's calming presence. An intelligent drama carefully constructed.
This is an intimate family drama film with good understated scripting and consummate performances by Guy Pearce and Felicity Jones. The seemingly perfect suburban family is seen as a facade and the subject of frustrated ambition is poignantly highlighted - all the more so as Keith wins a permanent position with the Symphony Orchestra with Sophie's calming presence. An intelligent drama carefully constructed.
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