A sweet, naïve young woman trying to make it on her own in New York City, Frances [Chloë Grace Moretz] doesn’t think twice about returning the handbag she finds on the subway to its rightful owner. That owner is Greta [Isabelle Huppert], an eccentric French piano teacher with a love for classical music and an aching loneliness. Having recently lost her mother, Frances quickly grows closer to widowed Greta. The two become fast friends — but Greta’s maternal charms begin to dissolve and grow increasingly disturbing as Frances discovers that nothing in Greta’s life is what it seems in this suspense thriller from Academy Award®-winning director Neil Jordan.
Two years after her death in a car crash, the husband and sons of famed photographer Isabelle Reed [Isabelle Huppert] are still trying to cope with their loss. Gene [Gabriel Byrne] struggles as a single parent, but is taking his first exultant steps towards a new relationship. Jonah [Jesse Eisenberg], the elder son, has just had a baby of his own and finds the transition from child to parent more than a little daunting. The younger son — Conrad [Devin Druid] — is a typical teenager, wearing his alienation as a badge of honor and resisting his father’s every attempt to connect. On the occasion of a major retrospective of Isabelle’s work, Jonah returns home to help his father organize her effects. Once again under the same roof, all three men are flooded with memories, and secrets are unearthed—most notably the truth behind the mysterious circumstances of Isabelle’s death. Shifting between past and present, and juxtaposing external reality with privileged glimpses into the interior lives of each of its four major characters, LOUDER THAN BOMBS is a stunningly intimate portrait of parents and children and the many things that tear them apart and bring them together.
Once happily married — Conor [James McAvoy] and Eleanor [Jessica Chastain] suddenly find themselves as strangers longing to understand each other in the wake of tragedy. The film explores the couple’s story as they try to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.
Once happily married — Conor [James McAvoy] and Eleanor [Jessica Chastain] suddenly find themselves as strangers longing to understand each other in the wake of tragedy. The film explores the couple’s story as they try to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.
