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‘The Freshly Cut Grass’ Review: At Tribeca, a Double Drama of Adultery as Cure for the Midlife Family Blues
Celina Murga's observant film takes a casual, no-judgment view of adultery as it charts the parallel paths of two straying professors.
Celina Murga, the Argentian director and co-writer of “The Freshly Cut Grass,” was born in 1973, and she works with a lived-in understanding of the jadedness that can set in when couples have fallen into the routines of family life to the point that the grind of it blots out everything else (like love and affection). But “The Freshly Cut Grass,” in its earnest Argentine way (the film is actually a co-production of Argentina, Uruguay, Germany, Mexico, and the U.S., and it’s being presented by Martin Scorsese), hits a level of contempo casualness about adultery that trumps even the what-goes-around-sleeps-around flippancy of French art cinema in the ’70s. The attitude of the filmmaker seems to be: Our lives, in the current climate, are so anxious and cantankerous and messy, so mired in the latest iteration of the gender wars, that if a little unfaithful action is necessary to stir things up, who could really argue?
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