Steven Spielberg puts his parents' divorce front and center in a new film about a young filmmaking prodigy. Based on his own childhood, the movie is funny, melancholy and altogether marvelous.
All this change takes a heavy toll on Sammy's free-spirited mother, Mitzi, played by Michelle Williams in an emotionally vibrant and ultimately devastating performance. Williams shows us Mitzi's radiance and her restlessness, and also her deep regret at having sacrificed a career as a concert pianist in order to raise her family. Mitzi urges Sammy to follow his filmmaking dreams. A close family friend, Bennie, played by Seth Rogen, proves just as encouraging.
Sammy loves making movies, in part, because it grants him the illusion of control. As he shoots with an 8-millimeter camera and cuts scenes together by hand, he discovers that he can bend reality to his will and even work through his fears and insecurities. That feels like a remarkably honest confession coming from Spielberg, who's often been taken to task by critics for being overly manipulative, for indulging in easy sentimentality and avoiding tougher questions.
As sad as its portrait of family can be, The Fabelmans is also Spielberg's funniest movie in some time; it has a winningly rambunctious spirit.is also Spielberg's funniest movie in some time; it has a winningly rambunctious spirit. Sure, there are some overly broad comic moments at Sammy's high school, where he experiences first love and butts heads with anti-Semitic jocks, but even these scenes prove irresistible.
Did it all really happen this way? It's doubtful; like all great storytellers, Spielberg knows the value of artifice and embellishment. But again and again in, he uses his dazzling command of the medium to arrive at startling new depths of emotional truth.
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