

Tells the story of a woman who gets involved in politics with no previous contact with world events.
Acting
Redgrave's unraveling is surgical; you cannot look away.
Direction
Nero traps you in her subjectivity like a panic room.
Writing
Wallace Shawn's play adapted with zero mercy for the audience.

Director
Carlo Gabriel Nero
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Adapted from Wallace Shawn's 1990 play, written during the Reagan-Bush era but surgically relevant to liberal guilt in any decade. Redgrave and Nero are mother and son.
Jolie's single scene was shot in one day; she reportedly did it as a favor to Redgrave, her godmother.
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