In Hollywood movies like How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Under the Tuscan Sun, women rebound from bad marriages and midlife crises by romancing younger men. Year by the sea is based on author Joan Anderson’s real life, so it’s not the typical Hollywood version. Karen Allen plays Joan, who takes a break from her marriage by living in a seaside town to focus on writing. She is not interested in the local man who comes courting her, who happens to be her son’s age. “I think in this particular film, honestly, she’s not looking to be involved with...read more...
- 12/5/2017
- by Fred Topel
- Monsters and Critics
Even women will lose their man cards if they buy a ticket to “Year by the Sea,” a figurative and nearly retch-inducing celebration of the ovary based on a best-selling memoir by Joan Anderson. As if completing a trilogy preceded by “Under the Tuscan Sun” and “Eat, Pray, Love,” writer-director Alexander Janko’s debut is about a woman who feels hemmed in by her daily grind and sets off solo to find herself. In this case, she leaves behind a stodgy husband who won’t even discuss her need for adventure. “Needs are a roof over your head and food on the.
- 9/8/2017
- by Tricia Olszewski
- The Wrap
Thirty years of marriage have turned Joan Anderson (Karen Allen) into “a mother and wife,” her sense of who she was before kids and marriage having almost vanished. When her husband Robin (Michael Cristofer) announces he has taken a job in a different city, and her kids have left for college, Joan decides it’s time to find out who she has become and takes off to Cape Cod for a year. There, not only will she fall in love with herself all over, but she will write her memoirs and get a stronger sense of who she is as a creator. If the plot of Year by the Sea sounds by-the-numbers, it may be because Anderson’s bestselling memoirs have served as the structure for many other works of fiction in which women of a certain age begin new endeavors in remote places. Whether they’re hotels for retired people,...
- 9/8/2017
- by Jose Solís
- The Film Stage
By Jose Solís.
Karen Allen stars in "Year by the Sea," opening next Friday
In Year By the Sea, Karen Allen plays author Joan Anderson, whose memoirs served as the inspiration for a film that asks what happens to women after their kids leave. For Anderson the answer came in a trip of rediscovery that took her from her home, to a small town in Cape Cod where she learned how to feel truly alive again. Allen’s portrayal of Joan reveals new layers in her work, she has always been compulsively watchable onscreen, but as the quiet Anderson she is absolutely luminous. Watching her in scenes opposite Yannick Bisson who plays the sexy fisherman Joan flirts with, she shows us that sensuality should not be relegated to 20-something, scantily clad female characters, and in scenes where Joan spends time with her friends, we crave for more fiction where women...
Karen Allen stars in "Year by the Sea," opening next Friday
In Year By the Sea, Karen Allen plays author Joan Anderson, whose memoirs served as the inspiration for a film that asks what happens to women after their kids leave. For Anderson the answer came in a trip of rediscovery that took her from her home, to a small town in Cape Cod where she learned how to feel truly alive again. Allen’s portrayal of Joan reveals new layers in her work, she has always been compulsively watchable onscreen, but as the quiet Anderson she is absolutely luminous. Watching her in scenes opposite Yannick Bisson who plays the sexy fisherman Joan flirts with, she shows us that sensuality should not be relegated to 20-something, scantily clad female characters, and in scenes where Joan spends time with her friends, we crave for more fiction where women...
- 9/1/2017
- by Jose
- FilmExperience
Someday, American movies revolving around women over 50 won’t be constrained by a certain perceived mandate: the need to deliver lessons in resilience and reinvention. In the meantime, we have Karen Allen’s vibrant, thoughtful portrait of resilience and reinvention in Year by the Sea, a film that’s otherwise awash in a high tide of self-help bromides.
Allen plays Joan Anderson, a good wife who, after more than 30 years of marriage, steps away from her taken-for-granted caretaking roles and into the unknown, in the form of a charmingly rustic seaside cottage on off-season Cape Cod. Joan’s economic privilege...
Allen plays Joan Anderson, a good wife who, after more than 30 years of marriage, steps away from her taken-for-granted caretaking roles and into the unknown, in the form of a charmingly rustic seaside cottage on off-season Cape Cod. Joan’s economic privilege...
- 8/27/2017
- by Sheri Linden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Year By The Sea screens Saturday, Nov. 12 at 8:00pm at The Tivoli Theater as part of this year’s St. Louis International Film Festival. Writer/director/composer Alexander Janko, producer Laura Goodenow, and star Karen Allen, a 2016 Women in Film Award honoree, will be in attendance. Ticket information can be found Here
After 30 years as a wife and mother, empty-nester Joan Anderson (Karen Allen) retreats to Cape Cod rather than follow her relocated husband (Michael Cristofer) to Kansas. Intent on rediscovering herself, but plagued with guilt, she questions her decision until stumbling on a spirited mentor, Joan Erikson (Celia Imrie), wife of the famed psychologist Erik Erikson. Supported by her literary agent (S. Epatha Merkerson) and a host of locals, including a sexy fisherman (Yannick Bisson), Joan learns to embrace the ebb and flow of life — ultimately discovering the balance between self and sacrifice, obligation and desire. Based on...
After 30 years as a wife and mother, empty-nester Joan Anderson (Karen Allen) retreats to Cape Cod rather than follow her relocated husband (Michael Cristofer) to Kansas. Intent on rediscovering herself, but plagued with guilt, she questions her decision until stumbling on a spirited mentor, Joan Erikson (Celia Imrie), wife of the famed psychologist Erik Erikson. Supported by her literary agent (S. Epatha Merkerson) and a host of locals, including a sexy fisherman (Yannick Bisson), Joan learns to embrace the ebb and flow of life — ultimately discovering the balance between self and sacrifice, obligation and desire. Based on...
- 11/8/2016
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Celia Imrie has been set to co-star in Year By The Sea, the adaptation of Joan Anderson's bestselling memoir that stars Karen Allen as the author hoping to reclaim who she was before marriage and children. The story centers on Joan’s retreat to Cape Cod where she embarks upon a quest to set herself free. That’s where she meets Joan Erikson (Imrie), a free-spirited matriarch and hippie with thrift-shop eccentricity who exudes resilience and inner strength. Imrie most…...
- 5/6/2015
- Deadline
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