Women Talking – 5

With cinematography by Walker Evans, dialogue by Kahlil Gibran and star turns by Ben Whishaw as Anthony Perkins and Rooney Mara as the non-Virgin Mary, this film had serious and artsy engraved on every tableau. Unfortunately, it just didn’t connect with me. I couldn’t tell if it was a fable, a parable, a women’s dream, a philosophy class or a visitor from an alternate universe, one where the Southern Cross is visible in the Northern Hemisphere and census workers broadcast “Daydream Believer” from their van.