A few superimposed words invite clarity. “This is not a love story,” reads between the images of Malcom & Marie, in the first trailer of the film that Netflix wanted to spread. “This is the story of love”. Of a doubtful, fragile and at the same time powerful love, of a love that, alone, manages to be the only protagonist of an entire film.
Malcom & Marie, available online from February 5th, is the story of a couple, forced, like many others, to face the consequences of the unspoken.
They could, they should. Instead, Malcolm and Marie didn’t. The two, who to the outside eye would seem the personification of marital success, have let small problems pile up on each other. Small angers, annoyances. Crumbs of an everyday life that, in accumulation, has found wear and tear, in Malcom & Marie a voice.
He film Netflix, written and directed by Sam Levinson’s Euphoria, is the chronicle of a battle that does not admit losers or winners. Malcom, John David Washington, and Marie, Zendaya, they find themselves at home, at the end of an evening that should have made them happy. Malcom, a director by profession, presented his film to an enthusiastic audience. The critics applauded him. Viewers foreshadowed its financial success. Big smiles accompanied the debut. But away from the red carpet, once he left the cone of spotlight, Malcom’s good mood dissolved. Marie attacked him. “You never thanked me,” she said, opening Pandora’s box, keeper of every little marital crime.
How Malcolm and his Marie’s evening ends, the trailer does not say, nor does it let you predict. What the first video tells, in black and white like the whole film, it is the dialectic of a couple, credible and ordinary. Malcom and Marie are two sides of the same coin, children of fear and resentment. And their fragile love is so tangible that it seems that it has prompted critics to marry a certainty. Zendaya, making her Netflix debut following the success of Euphoria (and the brief experience in the series The OA), and Washington could be the last – in chronological order – to secure an Oscar for the streaming platform.
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