Beautiful and yet...

Rating: 8/10 (28 December 2017)

Beautiful story about love, not about getting it, or keeping it, but about love and how it shows up. It is also about love for the movies. Beautifully filmed and acted. However...the story is kind of thin, filled with obvious jokes & pop culture references of the early 60s. Maybe because of Mad Men, maybe because of Apollo 13, maybe because I've seen these references so many times, they have gotten kind of stale. Then, there is the bogeyman played by Michael Shannon. I read his part was written for him. Good for him. I thought his acting was over the top. Maybe it was his eyes? The ending brought tears to my eyes and I stayed for the credits which I rarely do.