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Reader's Choice NYC Movie: "Trust The Man"'s Village Fantasia
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This week we took a hint from reader Eva, who recommended the 2006 movie "Trust the Man." On her blog Eva described "Trust the Man" (as well as another romantic comedy, "Prime") as potential successors to former Classic Movies topics "Annie Hall" and "When Harry Met Sally," calling them "smart movies about the way people really relate to each other." So how do people really relate to each other? No surprise: Dysfunctionally.
"Trust the Man" opens with a montage of stage-setting, Allenesque New York locales -- Washington Square Park, Abingdon Market in the West Village, East 10th Street and Stuyvesant Place. By luxuriating over these places, even with no apparent characters in them, writer-director Bart Freundlich is connecting the well-off, Village-dwelling characters in this world to their filmic predecessors.
These people have money, but it doesn't make them happy: Tom (David Duchovny) is not adjusting well to being a stay-at-home dad while his wife Rebecca (Julianne Moore, who happens to be Freundlich's wife) opens a play at Lincoln Center, so he cheats on her and doesn't seem to feel guilty about it. Meanwhile, Rebecca's younger brother Tobey (Billy Crudup) is feeling the pressure from girlfriend Elaine (Maggie Gyllenhaal), an aspiring children's book author, to settle down. As someone wise described "Hannah and Her Sisters," people meet, people cheat, people love and people leave.
