Bonfire of the Wannabes: Durkin Returns with Scenes from a Consumerist Marriage
Sean Durkin, at last, returns with sophomore feature The Nest nine years after debuting one of the strongest films of the last decade in 2011’s Martha Marcy May Marlene. While this time around he produces a portrait of a crumbling marriage tested by economic fantasies conditioned through the tattered portrait of an American Dream revitalized by Reagan’s age of excess in the 1980s, and is thus much more familiar and less sinister territory than either his debut or the formidable 2013 mini-series “Southcliffe,” it’s a carefully drawn portrait of how metaphorical emptiness breeds alienation and self-destruction.…...
Sean Durkin, at last, returns with sophomore feature The Nest nine years after debuting one of the strongest films of the last decade in 2011’s Martha Marcy May Marlene. While this time around he produces a portrait of a crumbling marriage tested by economic fantasies conditioned through the tattered portrait of an American Dream revitalized by Reagan’s age of excess in the 1980s, and is thus much more familiar and less sinister territory than either his debut or the formidable 2013 mini-series “Southcliffe,” it’s a carefully drawn portrait of how metaphorical emptiness breeds alienation and self-destruction.…...
- 9/18/2020
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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