Overview
We meet six-year-old Maisie at the start of her parents' messy divorce. She is the calm observer to the custody battle. It's hard to say whether she's just resigned herself to the fighting or is doing her best to shut it out. Her fading rock-star mum (Julianne Moore) and sleazy art dealer dad (Steve Coogan) certainly don't seem to dwell on the effect it might have on her.
What makes this movie so memorable is that we get to experience the world from a young person's perspective. Scott McGehee and David Siegel's modern day adaptation of the Henry James's 1897 novel focuses our attention on Maisie the whole way through. Against one of her parents' screaming matches we follow Maisie's gaze to a toy, a bug, a window, anything to take her attention away from what's going on.
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