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‘A Mistake’ Review: Elizabeth Banks Delivers Powerful Turn In Grim Medical Drama – Tribeca Film Festival
A review of ' A Mistake' a grim medical drama which features a strong performance from Elizabeth Banks in the World Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival
Therefore it is nice to see her sink her teeth into a major lead role in an intense but understated and dedicated turn as a brilliant and confident surgeon who finds one routine mistake during an operation spirals out of control,and in the process her life becomes a mess making her question just exactly who she really is, as well as her connection to the human beings who surround her. Based on Carl Shuken’s 2019 best seller, writer/director Christine Jeffs ( Sunshine Cleaning) delivers a grim but no-nonsense drama centered on this extremely talented surgeon named Elizabeth Taylor (Banks) at an Auckland hospital who unexpectedly starts falling down a rabbit hole during what was intended to be a routine Lapanoscopic procedure for a very sick young woman, Lisa (Acacia O’Connor). Meanwhile the dominoes in her life continue to fall, first in her home where she is knocking out a wall to get to some troublesome Borer Beetles, and then spraying the place, but forgetting she left behind Atticus, the elderly dog she was dogsitting for friend Jess (Fern Sutherland).
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