Director Tim Burton (Alice in Wonderland, Sleepy Hollow), working with writing team Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, delivers the extraordinary story of Margaret Keane in a relatively ordinary way. All lead in with hardly any pay-off, this film –while generally a good time – misses big when it counts.
Premise: A drama about painter Margaret Keane’s personal awakening, after her then husband, Walter, attempts to take credit for her talent. Result: A fair film that struggles and ultimately tumbles with too much build up without the right resolution.
This is the story of an artist struggling to find herself her voice in a man’s world. Set in the late 1950s and into the 60s, Margaret Ulbrich (Amy Adams), a recently divorced mother flees an oppressive husband and lands herself in San Francisco, with only her daughter Jane and her childhood friend DeeAnn (Krysten Ritter) for support.
Margaret sits on a tremendous talent: the facility to paint “big eyed” waifs, a tantalizing image that haunts the screen. But she is woefully undiscovered and it is not until she meets Walter Keane (Christoph Waltz), that her luck begins to change.
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