The female version of American Beauty

Rating: 7/10 (28 June 2018)

While watching this film I indeed got the feeling this is the female version of american beauty. Then the credits rolled in & the director is Sam Mendes...so that fell into place.
From the theme through the cinematography & the script (when we were young we were full of hope...and laughed at everybody that was like we are now) this is a rehash of AB but still the director shines the light at a bit of different angles, showing different variations of the characters emotions.
Kate Winslet gave a very good performance but in my opinion DiCaprio was terribly miscast. Or terribly directed. His manic-depression kind of role was awkward and over the top. Perhaps we're supposed to relate with April more than Frank but in AB Annette Bening was totally relateable even-tough having a smaller role.
Mendes really knows how to treat this subject and apparently likes it enough to do it over again (this coming from a man who's life is I guess not quite like his main characters...)
Last point I'd like to make is regarding the film name. Like AB it packs a lot of meaning & perhaps some anarchist pointers for the real people out there.