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Alcoholism, adultery, senility, spiritualism, death…
Based on Edward St. Aubyn’s novel, this Provence-set family saga has plenty of themes to kick around.
Shame, then, that sympathetic characters are in shorter supply.
Drunk dad Jack Davenport lurches through the film, barking at wife Annabel Mullion, whose perpetual passivity hides… not much, it seems.
Babbling New Age charlatan Adrian Dunbar, meanwhile, is as much a thorn in our side as he is in Davenport’s.
What stops Milk curdling is mother herself, the late Margaret Tyzack anchoring the narrative in a raw portrait of terminal illness.
Amid Oscar buzz, Zoe Saldana opens up on her new perspective on Hollywood and why she's only really proud of Avatar and Emilia Pérez: "I think I just have to accept who I am as a creative person"
Memento star Guy Pearce says a Warner Bros. exec blocked him from more Christopher Nolan movies, including Batman Begins: "I think he just didn’t believe in me as an actor"