Best Director?

Rating: 3/10 (25 January 2019)

Three excellent actresses and a script with potential ruined by no ending, irritating music and annoying direction. Clearly the director watched Citizen Kane (and tried to copy low-angle camera shots) and Barry Lyndon (filming with candle-light). While Welles used darkness and shadows for effect, this guy decided that shooting half the film against bright windows would be artistic but was just irritating. The director is nominated for the David Lean Award - another David Lean he certainly isn't. I can only assume that three strong female characters and weak or unpleasant male characters as well as pretentious film-making wowed the critics and Academy voters, sadly they all forget that being PC does not make a film entertaining or great.