Telluride at Dartmouth Film: "Can You Ever Forgive Me?"
A comedic melodrama about the infamous and true-life scam by celebrated writer Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy).
Location
Hopkins Center 123 Spaulding Auditorium
Sponsored by
Hopkins Center for the Arts
Audience
Public
This comedic true-life melodrama is adapted from the memoir of Lee Israel. A once-respected author falling into obscurity, Lee tries to save herself by tapping into her gift for forgery. Director Marielle Heller masterfully renders the book-lined apartments and shadowy bars of the Upper West Side, capturing the ache of being alone and unglamorous in your 50s and, powerfully, the humiliation of poverty after a life of middle-class success. Melissa McCarthy is so unaffected, unsentimental and precise as the self-absorbed Lee, that you easily forget she’s one of Hollywood’s most successful comedians. But then, her exchanges with Richard E. Grant—playing an equally clever, equally desperate conman—are wildly funny. (US, 2018, 1h47m)
Location
Hopkins Center 123 Spaulding Auditorium
Sponsored by
Hopkins Center for the Arts
Audience
Public
