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‘Millers in Marriage’ Review: Edward Burns Contends with Age and Art-Making in Mature Mid-Life Drama
What’s old is new again as the 'Brothers McMullen' director brings in a veteran ensemble for a drama about the roads not traveled after turning 50.
The film also introduces a potential cipher for the filmmaker in Johnny (Benjamin Bratt), a rock journalist who bugs Eve about a book he’s working on and tells her he’s considering moving out of New York when he feels invisible in a young person’s town. A cast that can look so comfortable in their own skin brings real gravitas to characters who have settled into lives they’re loathe to jeopardize with change, and Burns, with editor Janet Gaynor, finds an elegant, unhurried structure for the film with subtle flashbacks embedded in the course of conversations that expose what happened versus what someone would like to share or remember about their experience. What’s withheld is what drives the drama when the three main couples reach a reckoning, but when honesty is the premium currency, the romance takes shape in any open dialogue the characters can have with one another, which is even more seductive to an audience when Burns hasn’t lost his sharp ear for lived-in banter.
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