Michelle Williams and Luke Kirby in “Take This Waltzâ€
There will come a moment, after The Avengers and Battleship and MIB3, when youll need a break from special effects. As it happens, actors also like a little quiet now and again so youll find plenty of stars hiding out in the relative calm of the arthouse during popcorn season.
For starters, Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black (Milk) directs Jennifer Connelly and Ed Harris in Virginia, about a single mother entangled with her small towns sheriff. Other indie moms at the movies will include Eva Mendes, who neglects daughter Cierra Ramirez in Girl in Progress, and Catherine Keener, who sends Elizabeth Olsen to bond with grandma Jane Fonda in Peace, Love & Misunderstanding. Meanwhile, Kathleen Turner drives her kids (Emily Deschanel and Jason Ritter) nuts running for Catholic Woman of the Year in the dark comedy The Perfect Family.
Alas, there are also lots of ladies unlucky in love: Rashida Jones is separated from Andy Samberg in Celeste and Jesse Forever, Greta Gerwig has to recover from being jilted by her fianc in Lola Versus, and Freida Pinto is bound by cultural constraints in Michael Winterbottoms Trishna, an India-set update on Tess of the dUrbervilles.
Michelle Williams has a strong(ish) marriage to Seth Rogen so the last thing she expects is to fall for neighbor Luke Kirby in Take This Waltz. In Fernando Meirelles 360, Rachel Weisz is betrayed by Jude Law, while Emily Blunt and Rosemarie DeWitt create a complex triangle with Mark Duplass in Your Sisters Sister. Things do seem happier for Maggie Gyllenhaal, who revs up her sex life with Hugh Dancy in the Victorian-era romantic comedy Hysteria.
And no, we havent forgotten about the guys. One of this seasons highlights ought to be Morgan Spurlocks documentary Mansome, in which buddies like Paul Rudd, Jason Bateman, Zach Galifianakis, and Will Arnett ponder the concept of 21st century masculinity.
Thrillers include The Good Doctor, starring Orlando Bloom as a physician with a decidedly dark side, and The Samaritan, which sees Samuel L. Jackson starting over after two decades in prison. In The Woman in the Fifth, Ethan Hawke cant help wondering whether new love Kristin Scott Thomas is actually a killer. And in "The Day," postapocalyptic survivors (including Dominic Monaghan and Ashley Bell) face one last deadly trap.
On the lighter side, Chris Rock builds a happy (if chaotic) home with Julie Delpy in 2 Days in New York, and Zoe Kazan turns out to be Paul Danos dream woman in Ruby Sparks, which also stars Annette Bening and Antonio Banderas.
Finally, keep in mind a film with absolutely no familiar faces, but ecstatic advance word of mouth: Beasts of the Southern Wild. Benh Zeitlins mythical drama, about a little girl (Quvenzhan Wallis) living in an endangered corner of Louisiana, won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance this year. If youre hoping to find something truly unique this summer, put it on the calendar now; itll be out on June 27 hidden in the shadows cast by Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and G.I. Joe: Retaliation.
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