The Marvelous Mrs Maisel star plays a woman on the run with her baby in this intriguing feminist gangster film let down by its pace
“It’s your baby,” says mobster Eddie (Bill Heck), inexplicably plonking a strange crying infant into the lap of his wife, Jean (The Marvelous Mrs Maisel’s Rachel Brosnahan), before promptly disappearing. Rather than be implicated in his evident wrongdoings, Jean and baby have to hit the road, chauffeured by Eddie’s former associate Cal (Arinzé Kene). Jean’s hexagonal sunglasses, perhaps a nod to Gena Rowlands’s in Minnie and Moskowitz, indicate the early-70s setting. But this crime thriller is not a traditional period piece – by putting Eddie’s wife centre stage rather than the gangster himself, director Julia Hart suggests revisionist intentions.
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