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Trailer for the movie "The Best of You" (Film Forum)

Star rating - three stars (photo: image processing, Walla system)

Florence Pugh was first discovered about seven years ago in "Lady Macbeth", a masterful and not well-known film.

Her real breakthrough was a little later in "Midsomer", which became a cult film, as much as it can be nowadays, and since then you see her everywhere - "Little Women", "Black Widow", the scandalous "Don't worry my dear" and more.

She even contributed her voice to the blockbuster "Shark's Cat", and the hand is still tilted.

This summer we will also see her in Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer".

Now you can see her in "The Best of the Best", which opens in Israel at the end of the week after it quickly disappeared from cinemas in the United States.

The film was written and directed by her ex, Zach Braff, who stated that he created it inspired by her extraordinary talent.

Pio plays a young woman who was about to get married, but then a tragedy shook her life and that of who was going to be her family.

She sinks into deep grief and becomes addicted to painkillers, and the one who protects her and tries to help her recover is precisely the person she holds the most resentment in the world - the one who was supposed to be her lover, played by Morgan Freeman.

for life!

Florence Pio in "The Best of You" (Photo: Forum Film)

It's easy to be mean to the "good in you", and the American media has enjoyed doing it - movies of celebs, starring their ex, are always an easy target.

The film is indeed sentimental and melodramatic, certainly by today's standards.

In addition to that, towards the end comes one of the most puzzling plot developments seen recently on the screen.

But there is also value in all of this.

In the most ironic and cynical era in history, there is no upside in this film.

He is not afraid to be sensitive, to try to feel, and to deal with emotions with abysmal seriousness, just like they used to do.

There are no pyrotechnics in it either - it is based solely on a script and acting.

Remember when they used to make movies like this, and they would go up in cinemas and not on Netflix?

Besides Morgan Freeman, there are other famous actors and actresses in the film, for example Molly Shannon as the heroine's mother, but the one who carries the drama on her shoulders all the way is Florence Pio.

True, "The Best in You" will not be remembered as one of her biggest and most successful films, but she shows virtuosity in it that she has not shown before.

Mysterious plot developments.

From "The Best of You" (Photo: Forum Film)

Pio does everything in this film - she even wrote two songs for him, and also performs them of course.

In addition to that, her character goes through every possible stop on the emotional roller coaster - falls in love, crashes, becomes addicted, recovers, builds herself an alternate father figure and becomes an alternate mother figure herself.

The actress does all this through her unique set of talents, which has made her such a prominent star at the moment: a combination of British class and rigid roughness, elegance mixed with venom, uncompromising professionalism, captivating charisma, electrifying presence, sex appeal and above all, the feeling that an inner world is bubbling within her Rich, and the sentiment that she doesn't knock an account.

As if she comes and says - will you love me?

Beauty.

Won't you like it?

Your problem, but right now everyone loves her, so no problem at all.

"The Best in You" was less liked in the American media, also because of the claim that an issue such as addiction to painkillers deserves more in-depth treatment. This is of course true, but the film does not pretend to be an authority on the subject.

It has only one pretension to begin with - to be a stage for the talent of Florence Pugh, and she makes the most of that stage.

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