One of the best films of 2020, shot in just two weeks and with a newly drafted script that allowed the actors to improvise lines directly on stage, does not yet have an Italian distributor. Is titled Let Them All Talk, is directed by the Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh and debuted in America on HBO Max, the same platform that is timidly trying to put together a revival of Sex and the City and is already working on a special reunion of Friends, postponed due to the pandemic. History, which was immediately greeted with enthusiasm by US critics, revolves around four main characters: an internationally acclaimed writer, her niece and her two old college friends, all together aboard an ocean liner that will take them from New York to southern England.
Alice Hughes, played by a wonderful Meryl Streep, is, in fact, a best-selling author who, given her fear of flying, chooses to embark on a transoceanic crossing in order to receive a prestigious literary prize for her latest novel, warmly received by critics but not as popular as the first , what his publishing house would like Alice to take back to come up with a sequel. The fact that Hughes is working on a new top secret manuscript lights up the hopes of his editor Karen (Gemma Chan), who decides to go to the bottom of the investigation by picking information from Tyler (Lucas Hedges), Alice’s favorite nephew. It is curious, however, that, when choosing who to take with her on this journey, the writer does not delay a moment and mention the names of Susan (Dianne Wiest) e Roberta (Candice Bergen), the friends she hasn’t seen for thirty years but who have been the source of inspiration for the main characters of her novels, especially Roberta, who feels in some way that she deserves compensation for the personal damage suffered (Hélène Devynck, read us ?).
Shot all on the Queen Mary 2 during a real transatlantic voyage, asking passengers to sign a release to appear as extras, Soderbergh constructs a brilliant drama where the trio of Meryl Streep, Candice Bergen and Dianne Wiest stands out, three actresses with a capital “a” who, between dinners and strolls on the stern, offer tight and stabbed dialogues to no end, bringing out all the poisons and frustrations of three mature women who seem to have nothing more to lose. Together with the sometimes claustrophobic direction of Soderbergh and the track outlined by Deborah Eisenberg who, in fact, appears in the credits as a screenwriter despite the improvisation of many dialogues by the actors on the set, Let Them All Talk succeeds, in a style very reminiscent of that of the first Woody Allen, to tell us that the industry doesn’t need millionaire budgets when dealing with such strong human material and as profound as that provided by Eisenberg: the way in which the film represents the disorder of the human psyche is absolutely brilliant and never pathetic, making us hope that a distributor will come forward as soon as possible to make it available in Italy as well.
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