Elly and Henry (2017)

Elly and Henry: Directed by Leslie Streit. With Jill Eikenberry, Ray Van Ness III. This is the story of Elly and Henry – a portrait of a pioneering inventor and the woman who made everything possible throughout their 66 years together.

“The intertwined lives of people is not really something new under the sun;to name but two , Julien Duvivier (u0026quot;Sous Le Ciel De Parisu0026quot; ) and Robert Guédiguian (u0026quot;La Ville Est Tranquille u0026quot;) have already made this kind of movie.This one is uneven ,with good moments but with weakenesses too, particularly the ending ..u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe most endearing characters are certainly Josephine and her violent husband ; the first sequence takes place just after their wedding (we do not see ,but there must not have been wedding gown,or walking up the aisle,let alone parents ) but when the young husband suggests a guessing game ,one feels that something is wrong in the couple : he compares his brideu0026#39;s daddy to Baloo bear ;the only characters to belong to the working class, the boy gives a bad time to her spouse he keeps on beating ,in spite of the fatheru0026#39;s intervention .u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eTheir neighbor is a man estranged from his wife ,whose daughter is going to marry a man who could be her grand -father;the scene on the phone is rather funny (Gregory Gadebois gives an effective performance );unfortunately this segment leads nowhere ,except that it proves that love does not know age difference ,which is not exactly new.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe third characteru0026#39;s connection with the others is rather tenuous : a dreaming student whose mother is over possessive : her lines are badly written and does not ring true;besides the actress overplays and is almost unbearable.The scene with the hooker on the phone is rubbish.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIn a word:uneven.”