Claire in Motion (2017)

I love this movie so much

Great Film overall

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

This movie didn't make sense at all. Maybe that is why the husband left....he went to the picture show in the next town over because he was BORED.

Do not ignore the hyperbolic "If you can think of THE worst movie imaginable as a mole hill, this is Mt. Everest" - cuz, you know what, for some folks this really isn't "a good movie". But with all due respect, I think those looking for resolution are really missing the point. No, this is not so much a 'mystery' as it is a study of human nature and, well, life itself. Sometimes we ARE left without answers (although, in this case, it's pretty clear to me that Paul likely disappeared to start a new life, leaving a LOT of loose ends behind). What I find really astonishing is that this was written and directed by two WOMEN! Reason? The sentiment of I don't feel like I'm appreciated, let alone loved, was what Paul felt, and he's a guy! Now, of course, they could just be flipping the husband/wife thing around, and perhaps a WOMAN disappearing would be perhaps less believable unless her safety or that of her children are at stake. I can honestly say that there have been times when I feel like pulling a stunt like that. We know that he didn't cheat on his wife - that'd be too cliched. But if I have to find fault with the plot, it is the failure to fully establish Paul's desire to disappear like that - that little video clip where he says she's not looking at him doesn't carry with it that broad a shoulder. Still, I enjoyed this as a thought-provoking movie, and I'd watch a thousand of these, flaws and all, over watching some mindless special-effect, 'clever dialogue' crap that Hollywood is habitually churning out of its butt hole on a regular basis - those and the 'sequels' and remakes. GAG!

ignore the good reviews there obviously by the producer or someone involved in the film. An what a bunch of pretentious bull they are.the story line sounds good but is not executed at all. its like a child's story where they have an idea but no clue how to action it especially the ending were a child would end it with it was all a dream! honestly ignore that voice in your head saying it sounds good an worth a try and save yourself.the endApparently I have too have ten lines of text to submit a review? why? am not re writing the script just giving a quick review!honestly first the film annoys me and now you I m d b. well now I review you.the rule of ten lines minimum means most wont bother giving a review as they don't have that much to say about it. if that's the reason you do it then what's the point of the site? 7/10 for you, you was 9.

If you're one of those who need your movie's to be wrapped up nice and neat and complete with a little bow at their conclusion, with all the loose ends securely tied tight, and each and every question fully answered, then "Claire in Motion" is definitely not the flick for you, my friend.However, if you appreciate a provocative story unfolding layer upon layer, allowing the viewer to absorb and assess what they believe may be happening as the chronicle progresses, and then to subjectively determine on their own what may or may not have happened in the end, then I can not recommend "Claire in Motion" more highly to you.Co-Writers and Directors Annie J. Howell and Lisa Robinson have fashioned an impressively unconventional and beguiling mystery. Their narrative reaches that uncommon emotional place of being both fascinating and unnerving, often times even outright uncomfortable, in terms of how we are moved to feel in our experience as an audience.Betsy Brandt, so extraordinary as Marie Schrader in the eternally iconic "Breaking Bad", is once again superb here as Claire. Brandt gives us a multifarious character whose faith in practically everything in her seemingly idyllic life is joltingly shattered when she comes to learn how she had completely failed to recognize she was systematically losing that which she holds most dear. Claire struggles to remain strong and hold out hope in the face of an increasingly devastating reality which threatens to crush her very soul into shards of regret. Brandt's embodiment of a woman living an endless nightmare day after day after wrenchingly draining day is a powerfully genuine portrayal. It is a mesmeric and stirring personification which, left to a lesser actress, would have almost assuredly registered as merely moribund and morose. Brandt imbues Claire with a far more fully-dimensional sensibility than that which we may typically expect as she creates an unusually complex rendering. Her performance borders on, if it doesn't launch fully into, brilliance.Zev Haworth, appearing in his first feature film, is Claire's adolescent son, Connor. He is a quiet boy, but we sense early on that there is a lot going on inside this young man which he refuses to release, even to his mother. Connor's counselor-recommended letter to his dad near the end of "Claire in Motion" is at once heartfelt and heart destroying. Haworth is a natural wonder. Watch for him in the years to come.And can we get some love for veteran supporting player Anna Margaret Hollyman ("White Reindeer") already? Can we manage to do this, all you Hollywood string-pullers out there? Hollyman's strange yet stunning depiction of the other woman Allison is not only an important role in "Claire", it is a critical component. For it is Allison who provides the voice, as well as the conscience, for the missing husband Paul. We would have never come to at least in part understand Paul if not for this curiously enigmatic art school grad student revealing to us some manner of the "why for" behind a man's bafflingly bizarre behavior. Hollyman's Allison changes as the situation dictates, and her versatility and poignance is as striking as it is searing.Howell and Robinson team in tantalizing tandem with Cinematographer Andreas Burgess's irregular scene framing and unorthodox camera angles and Xander Duell's cosmically disquieting musical score. Their inspired work comes together seamlessly to craft a consistent and entirely appropriate vibe of disorienting otherworldliness which mimics the near-hallucinatory state of being we watch Claire slowly descend into.Ultimately, and in keeping with the dynamic implicit in it's title, "Claire in Motion" is an unflinching examination of the excruciatingly painful process of "moving on" in the wake of unbearable loss, cruelly compounded in this case by the not conclusively knowing if your loved one is truly lost at all.At least in the physical interpretation of the word.******Incidentally, I do not work for a Motion Picture Studio, nor have I ever. I genuinely like the movie. To each his own...kinna makes this ol' world go 'round, don't it? ;]