
Eleanor Rigby jumps off an NYC bridge and is fished up by rescuers. This is the story, seen from her eyes (as opposed to the two other movies in the trilogy - Him and Them), of the time after the jump. She's picked up at the hospital by her sister, Katy, and driven to her parents' (Mary and Julian) house. What now? She signs up for identity theory class at NYU, where her dad teaches. Her unofficially ex husband is also taking the class so she runs out. When following her out,... (Full plot summary below)
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Eleanor Rigby jumps off an NYC bridge and is fished up by rescuers. This is the story, seen from her eyes (as opposed to the two other movies in the trilogy - Him and Them), of the time after the jump. She's picked up at the hospital by her sister, Katy, and driven to her parents' (Mary and Julian) house. What now? She signs up for identity theory class at NYU, where her dad teaches. Her unofficially ex husband is also taking the class so she runs out. When following her out, he/Conor gets hit by a car. She sits with him until the ambulance arrives. Her dad tries, to no avail, make her see a therapist. Eleanor befriends her female teacher. Eleanor babysits her nephew while Katy's on a date. Eleanor thinks back at the time with Conor.
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| Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperFor the most part, thanks in great part to Benson’s rich screenplay and Chastain’s nomination-worthy work, I was immersed in this story no matter who was telling the tale. |
| Washington PostMichael O'SullivanIn viewing the same tale retold from two mutually exclusive vantage points, we become aware of how “Him” and “Her” deepen and enrich certain aspects of the story, adding contrast and, at times, contradiction, to the whole. |
| The PlaylistNikola GrozdanovicIt’s a finely tuned and tenderly detailed love story of two people told on a cosmic scale. |
| IndiewireEric KohnThe calibration of mature performances and a reasonably credible, if somewhat familiar, scenario make "Eleanor Rigby" a lot more watchable than the strange conceit of the production. |
| The A.V. ClubA.A. DowdIt’s little surprise that Her turns out to be the better of the two movies, mostly by virtue of prominently featuring Chastain, who conveys an interior life — shifting emotions, competing desires — the script doesn’t supply her. |
| VarietyScott FoundasEven at its most purplish and highfalutin (mostly in the “Her” section), “Eleanor Rigby” always aims for something sincere, and when Benson pulls back a bit — and stops trying to show us how much Freud he’s read and how many Bergman films he’s seen — the movie becomes vastly more engaging. |
| The DissolveNoel MurrayHer is such a well-drawn character sketch—with such a fantastic Chastain performance—that it practically justifies the whole experiment. |
| Village VoiceSerena DonadoniIn this unhurried full version, Benson allows grief to transform his characters, with few guarantees and plenty of regrets. |
| The Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungAll of these characters are worth knowing and the acting is excellent all around, but somewhere along the line the narrative arc vanishes and tedium sets in. |
| Los Angeles TimesSheri Linden"Him" and "Her" are hardly groundbreaking cinema, but they are more rewarding than "Them." |