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To Leslie Movie Review: A performance backed redemption story
Updated On: 12 May, 2023 06:43 PM IST | Mumbai | Johnson Thomas
To Leslie movie review: Andrea Riseborough earned an Oscar nomination for her inimitable performance in the film, and deservingly so.
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Andrea Riseborough in a still from To Leslie
Film: To Leslie
Cast: Andrea Riseborough, Andre Royo, Owen Teague, Stephen Root, James Landry Hébert, Matt Lauria, Catfish Jean, Marc Maron
Director: Michael Morris
Rating: 3.5/5
`To Leslie` gained ascendance at the Oscars because of Andrea Riseborough`s inimitable performance and deservingly so. The film is a stirring character study captured intimately in 35mm. We first meet Leslie (Andrea Riseborough) in an opening credits montage playing to a Dolly Parton track, showing Leslie winning $190,000 in a lottery, celebrating the victory, and then going all the way to rock bottom from there. Seven years after the win, in dire straits because of her alcoholism, she gets kicked out of her rental home and decides to drop in on her now-19-year-old son James (Owen Teague) at his apartment in the city. James, whom she abandoned when he was 15, reaches the end of his tether when Leslie continues to feed her destructive habits at his expense. Leslie has no alternative but to find her way back to her rural hometown, the place where she is thought of as, in her words, `a piece of shit.`
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