'Four days': Glen Close, mother of a tabletop heroine

2021-05-08T11:16:22.011Z

In the terrible context of the opioid epidemic in the United States, Rodrigo García focuses on family therapy between a mother and her daughter

Based on a report by

The Washington Post,

Four Days

turns Glenn Close into the mother of a junkie, Mila Kunis, facing her addiction and her family during the four days of the title, which are those of the endless wait for the start of a new detoxification treatment.

Rodrigo García focuses in his new film on a mother-child relationship marked by mistrust, pain and frustration towards a sick daughter, addicted to heroin in her vein, toothless and recidivist after countless treatments and, worst of all, after getting hooked, as thousands of young Americans, by prescription.

One more victim of the opiate epidemic caused by criminal pharmaceutical companies for almost two decades.

In this terrible context, a film that focuses on the family therapy between Close and Kunis moves.

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If in the recent

Hillbilly, a rural elegy, a

Ron Howard film that has earned Close an Oscar nomination, the veteran actress was somewhat contrived in her role as a grandmother of the deepest and Trumpist America,

four days

manages to be convincing, at times moving, in the skin of a common character that borders on tragedy. Close takes over her years, her body and a look capable of transmitting both love and fatigue and despair. It makes credible a mother who no longer believes anything faced with the survival of a daughter capable of awakening her best and worst instincts. The film looks good, it has sequences and moments that, although they distil too many hours of psychotherapy, work, such as the sad breakfast with the eldest daughter, the massages of the mother expressing her love in her own way or even the final metaphor of the table puzzle . But the ensemble lacks some depth, and in some moments also verisimilitude, in its approach to addiction and the character of the daughter.A long-distance junkie whose unfathomable struggle too often resembles that of a tabletop heroine.