All We Had (2016)

All We Had (2016)

A touching and interesting film… but despite that, I was quite bored.

The transsexual character is the most endearing. However, it is to him that the most violent problem happens.

Eve Lindley is a transgender woman who began her transition in high school, with the support of her father. She’s a great actress apparently. I’ll have to see her mini-series “Dispatches from Elsewhere” sometime.

As for the others:

• Katie Holmes: excellent performance by this actress who has definitely proven herself.

Very convincing in the role of the poor mother who no longer hesitates to scam and doesn’t trust anyone… but still falls regularly in love, much to her daughter’s dismay.

• Stefania LaVie Owen: I recently saw her in a nice little role in the children’s horror film “Krampus”.
• Richard Kind: always good to see this likeable actor again. Here in his fatherly role, a boss role, very human, in spite of everything, with his faults.
• Mark Consuelos: I didn’t know this actor. Here he plays the seducer, sure of himself and detestable. I’m not sure I’d recognise him if I saw him anywhere else.
• Judy Greer: if you watch this film for her, you should know that you don’t even see her for five minutes.

Actress in more or less interesting roles. She knows how to play a snobbish bourgeois woman. I wonder why!

• Luke Wilson: true to form in this role of a guy who seems lost, uncomfortable, ill at ease with himself, especially when faced with alcoholism. Yet he’s a rich dentist with a nice house who does good work. He’s just consumed by this scourge. A character with a heart in his hand, apologising after offending someone, who is welcoming.

A film to see, alternating nice moments with dramatic ones.

A dramatic comedy, par excellence.

I say I was quite bored and I don’t plan to see it again. But the cinematic experience was enjoyable and left me without much frustration, although the ending is not really an ending. There are unresolved things and it’s a never-ending problem with poverty. But that’s what life is all about.