Jean (Rachel Brosnahan) lives in a comfortable home with her husband Eddie (Bill Heck) and turns a blind eye to the latter's business, a mobster on the whole line. A short time later, her husband disappears and Jean has to hastily leave her home with her young son.
I'm Your Woman raises those situations (almost a narrative subgenre) in which a character with a comfortable but dependent life literally collapses the world and staggers on a path of inner transformation and empowerment.
Julia Hart's film (set in the 70s) combines drama with gangster thriller and consists of two parts. I make this clarification because the first one is difficult to navigate due to its extreme delinquency, since it appeals too much to dead times and a generally failed suspense. The subsequent entry of other characters who provide more information breathes movement into the plot and gives the main character depth.
Thanks to its second part, I'm Your Woman is saved in part, despite the fact that the too quiet tone of its dialogues persists.
Rachel Brosnahan plays a good role (far removed from The Marvelous Mrs Maisel), in a film that could have been better, since based on good ideas, it partially fails in its realization.
Postscript: set in the 70s, it is part of the movie squad in which a part of its plot would disintegrate had cell phones existed in its time ...
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