Here and Now 2018

     Vivienne is an established singer/songwriter in New York and she gets a grim diagnosis that puts her life and dreams into perspective.  Her career has been successful and she is on the eve of a major performance.  She crisscrosses the busy streets of New York and she thinks about balance.  Her music tour, family and friends.  She contacts her overbearing mother Jeanne, her long-time manager Ben and her ex-husband Nick.  She tries to put her past and present situation into perspective.  She has already made important decision and sacrifices, what should her answer be at this time??
     Vivienne has lived an extraordinary life but she also has regrets.  She is an absentee mother with a time-consuming career.  She has a prickly relationship with her mom.  She has a string of broken relationships past and present.  As this film goes along, Vivienne gives us insight about how someone with a terminal diagnosis would process and cope with this event.  The subject is very heavy but the film is not.  It is really a LOT of Sarah Jessica Parker walking around New York for a day looking sad and disappointing people right and left?  She is beautiful in her several outfit changes and she walks perfectly in high heels?  Is this what should be going on when you are facing your own death??  Will talking to herself continually give her the decision she needs to make?  1 1/2* (I really didn’t like this movie)  

91 min, Drama directed by Fabien Constant and written by Laura Eason with Renee 
Zellweger, Simon Baker, Sarah Jessica Parker, Taylor Kinney, Jacqueline Bisset, Common, Waleed Zuaiter, Gus B irney, Phillipa Soo, Mary Beth Peil, Michael Potts, Doris McCarthy.

Note:  Imdb 4.3* out of 10 with 1,038 views, Rotten Tomatoes 23% with 22 critics 10% with 62 audience scores, Common Sense Media Tara McNamara, age 14+, 3* positive, 1* role model. 4* sex, 4* language, 2* consumerism, 2* drinking, drugs & smoking, meteoritic 45 out of 100 with 10 critics (10 mixed), observer.com 2* Rex Reed, Amazon 2.6* out of 5* with 61 reviews, Letterboxd 2 1/2* David Ehrilch.

Special Note:  This is a remake of a French New Wave film from 1962 titled Cleo From 5 to 7.  Simon Baker previously played a character called Nick in the TV-Series The guardian.

Mistake:  When Viv goes into the bar for Tessa’s party a guy looks at a wine bottle and asks her if she would like some Chablis and then he pours red wine from the bottle?