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3 days ago
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‘Dragonfly' Review: Andrea Riseborough And Brenda Blethyn Give Wings To Paul Andrew Williams' Poignant Neighborhood Drama
Paul Andrew Williams's feature debut was called London to Brighton (2006), but the British director has never been much interested in capital cities. His latest, Dragonfly, is another example of this, being a dark, low-key drama about the ways in which the unnoticed lives of suburban people can make surprising headlines. In a direct way, it's a sister piece to his provocative 2010 home invasion film Cherry Tree Lane, in which—pre-empting Adolescence—a middle-class couple's humdrum live is turned upside down when they are inexplicably attacked by violent teenage rebels without any apparent cause. In reality, though—and despite the blood spilt both onscreen and off—it turns out to be more like the film Williams made in 2012. Called Song for Marion, it starred Terence Stamp as an emotionally shut-down widower who joins a choir to pay homage to his late wife (Vanessa Redgrave). It wasn't a commercial success, and Dragonfly may not be either, but the new film makes better use of that film's ingredients: themes of loneliness, regret, bereavement, self-worth and family. And like Song for Marion, it has quite the cast: two Oscar nominees playing just outside their age range and beyond their comfort zones. More from Deadline Editors Guild Protests Against Nonfiction Producer Story Syndicate At Tribeca Premiere Of OceanGate Submersible Documentary 'Titan' As Tribeca Kicks Off, Toppers Weigh In On Their Growing Festival & Standing Up To Donald Trump Banijay Appoints Factual Drama Chief There's little to no vanity here in the central pairing of Brenda Blethyn, as the elderly widow Elsie, and Andrea Riseborough, as her unemployed neighbor Colleen, and the two very different actors' styles work perfectly together. The film's opening ten minutes sets up the two women's lives with a poignant economy: living in back-to-back bungalows, they lead eerily similar lives, like ghosts. Elsie had a life once and misses it bitterly now, but Colleen never had a life at all. 'So weird,' says Colleen, quite intuitively, when she first visits Elsie's home. 'It's exactly like mine, just the other way round.' Colleen has lived next door to Elsie for some 13 years before the story starts, and it's not quite immediately clear why she should suddenly pop round to offer her services—does Elsie want anything from the shop? But Colleen has been watching the procession of carers that visit Elsie from day to day, and she sees a woman who deserves more than the clock-watching agency nurses who come to give her showers she doesn't need and food that isn't doing her any good at all. There is, as they say, a gap in the market, and Colleen moves fast to fill it, something Elsie appreciates and which helps the once dowdy woman blossom. Compared even to the slow-burn of Williams' last film Bull (2021), the film takes baby steps to reveal itself as a genre film, but the score by Raffertie is ahead of the action at every turn. Nothing will ever really be revealed or explained by the end, but Williams' script sets up so many fascinating ways in which these two very different women — the relatively posh Elsie and the definitely struggling-class Colleen — strike a chord. And key to that is the introduction of Elsie's son John (Jason Watkins). Middle-aged and yet still pathetically upwardly mobile, John is the harbinger here, and his nasty bourgeois values, coming between Elsie and Colleen, turn out to the be the meat in the sandwich. Instead of Chekhov's gun in this scenario we have a dog, and Colleen's inability to control her 'mentalist' crossbreed Sabre does not go well for either of them, leading to a very violent denouement. But Williams' film is not so much concerned with the tension of getting to that and more about the understanding; Andrea Riseborough is just so good at this, bringing the A-game she brought to 2022's To Leslie, but this time with a more jarring child-like innocence, reflected in her pasty, wan complexion. The same goes for Brenda Blethyn, so effortlessly affecting as a wife and mother reduced to becoming a client to the welfare state, a degradation that Colleen just can't begin to tolerate. Williams' films often end with a question mark, and that doesn't always satisfy. With Dragonfly, however, the questions posed are moral and timely, and they will hang around in your head long after as you think about women like Colleen and Elsie and the things in their lives that are missing. It's a mother of a story. Title: DragonflyFestival: Tribeca (International Narrative Competition)Director/screenwriter: Paul Andrew WilliamsCast: Andrea Riseborough, Brenda Blethyn, Jason WatkinsUS Sales: AMP InternationalRunning time: 1 hr 38 mins Best of Deadline Broadway's 2024-2025 Season: All Of Deadline's Reviews Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Winners Through The Years Deadline Studio At Sundance Film Festival Photo Gallery: Dylan O'Brien, Ayo Edebiri, Jennifer Lopez, Lily Gladstone, Benedict Cumberbatch & More
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3 days ago
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‘Dragonfly' Review: Andrea Riseborough And Brenda Blethyn Give Wings To Paul Andrew Williams' Poignant Neighborhood Drama
Paul Andrew Williams's feature debut was called London to Brighton (2006), but the British director has never been much interested in capital cities. His latest, Dragonfly, is another example of this, being a dark, low-key drama about the ways in which the unnoticed lives of suburban people can make surprising headlines. In a direct way, it's a sister piece to his provocative 2010 home invasion film Cherry Tree Lane, in which—pre-empting Adolescence—a middle-class couple's humdrum live is turned upside down when they are inexplicably attacked by violent teenage rebels without any apparent cause. In reality, though—and despite the blood spilt both onscreen and off—it turns out to be more like the film Williams made in 2012. Called Song for Marion, it starred Terence Stamp as an emotionally shut-down widower who joins a choir to pay homage to his late wife (Vanessa Redgrave). It wasn't a commercial success, and Dragonfly may not be either, but the new film makes better use of that film's ingredients: themes of loneliness, regret, bereavement, self-worth and family. And like Song for Marion, it has quite the cast: two Oscar nominees playing just outside their age range and beyond their comfort zones. More from Deadline Editors Guild Protests Against Nonfiction Producer Story Syndicate At Tribeca Premiere Of OceanGate Submersible Documentary 'Titan' As Tribeca Kicks Off, Toppers Weigh In On Their Growing Festival & Standing Up To Donald Trump Banijay Appoints Factual Drama Chief There's little to no vanity here in the central pairing of Brenda Blethyn, as the elderly widow Elsie, and Andrea Riseborough, as her unemployed neighbor Colleen, and the two very different actors' styles work perfectly together. The film's opening ten minutes sets up the two women's lives with a poignant economy: living in back-to-back bungalows, they lead eerily similar lives, like ghosts. Elsie had a life once and misses it bitterly now, but Colleen never had a life at all. 'So weird,' says Colleen, quite intuitively, when she first visits Elsie's home. 'It's exactly like mine, just the other way round.' Colleen has lived next door to Elsie for some 13 years before the story starts, and it's not quite immediately clear why she should suddenly pop round to offer her services—does Elsie want anything from the shop? But Colleen has been watching the procession of carers that visit Elsie from day to day, and she sees a woman who deserves more than the clock-watching agency nurses who come to give her showers she doesn't need and food that isn't doing her any good at all. There is, as they say, a gap in the market, and Colleen moves fast to fill it, something Elsie appreciates and which helps the once dowdy woman blossom. Compared even to the slow-burn of Williams' last film Bull (2021), the film takes baby steps to reveal itself as a genre film, but the score by Raffertie is ahead of the action at every turn. Nothing will ever really be revealed or explained by the end, but Williams' script sets up so many fascinating ways in which these two very different women — the relatively posh Elsie and the definitely struggling-class Colleen — strike a chord. And key to that is the introduction of Elsie's son John (Jason Watkins). Middle-aged and yet still pathetically upwardly mobile, John is the harbinger here, and his nasty bourgeois values, coming between Elsie and Colleen, turn out to the be the meat in the sandwich. Instead of Chekhov's gun in this scenario we have a dog, and Colleen's inability to control her 'mentalist' crossbreed Sabre does not go well for either of them, leading to a very violent denouement. But Williams' film is not so much concerned with the tension of getting to that and more about the understanding; Andrea Riseborough is just so good at this, bringing the A-game she brought to 2022's To Leslie, but this time with a more jarring child-like innocence, reflected in her pasty, wan complexion. The same goes for Brenda Blethyn, so effortlessly affecting as a wife and mother reduced to becoming a client to the welfare state, a degradation that Colleen just can't begin to tolerate. Williams' films often end with a question mark, and that doesn't always satisfy. With Dragonfly, however, the questions posed are moral and timely, and they will hang around in your head long after as you think about women like Colleen and Elsie and the things in their lives that are missing. It's a mother of a story. Title: DragonflyFestival: Tribeca (International Narrative Competition)Director/screenwriter: Paul Andrew WilliamsCast: Andrea Riseborough, Brenda Blethyn, Jason WatkinsUS Sales: AMP InternationalRunning time: 1 hr 38 mins Best of Deadline Broadway's 2024-2025 Season: All Of Deadline's Reviews Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Winners Through The Years Deadline Studio At Sundance Film Festival Photo Gallery: Dylan O'Brien, Ayo Edebiri, Jennifer Lopez, Lily Gladstone, Benedict Cumberbatch & More
Buzz Feed
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
Colleen And Matt From "Love Is Blind" Announce Divorce
It's over for Love Is Blind's Colleen Reed and Matt Bolton. After almost four years together, the reality stars have announced they're getting a divorce. In a joint statement shared to Instagram, they wrote, "Hi everyone, we wanted to share something personal, and this is not easy to do, but after nearly four years together, we've decided to end our marriage and move forward on our own paths." They continued, "We've been separated for some time now and have been doing our best to work through everything privately and with care. This was an incredibly difficult decision, not one we made lightly. It came with a lot of thought and it's been an emotional process for both of us." And although it didn't work out, they said they'll "always be grateful for the love and memories we shared. There's not one thing we would change and we continue to have deep respect and care for one another." They concluded the statement by thanking fans for their support before requesting privacy as they navigate their next chapter. Matt and Colleen first met on Season 3 of the Netflix dating series, getting married in Episode 11. Fans will remember them for deciding not to move in together immediately after their wedding, as well as Matt's often divisive behavior in disagreements with Colleen. They finally moved in together in June 2023, almost two years after they wed. Divorce rumors have swirled for the past several months due to Colleen allegedly being seen without her ring, and Matt's limited presence on her social media pages. Here's what people had to say about the news of their split: Good luck on your next chapters, Matt and Colleen.
Time of India
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
'Love is Blind' fame Colleen Reed and Matt Bolton announce shocking split after four years of marriage
Colleen Reed and Matt Bolton, a couple from one of the most popular online dating variety shows, 'Love is Blind', have announced that after four years of being married to one another, they have mutually decided to part ways. The news was shared by the couple on their social media accounts and came as a major shock to the public. Colleen Reed and Matt Bolton part ways The couple recently took to their online social media platforms to confirm the split to the public. In a joint statement shared by them, the duo began the note by saying, 'We wanted to share something personal, and this is not easy to do, but after nearly four years together, we've decided to end our marriage and move forward on our own paths.' The couple shared that the split is not recent and the two have been away from one another for a while. They also shared that they had been trying to solve things privately and away from the prying eyes of media. 'We've been separated for some time now and have been doing our best to work through everything privately and with care. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like 2025: Steel Suppliers From Mexico At Lowest Prices (Take A Look) Steel Suppliers | search ads Search Now Undo "This was an incredibly difficult decision," says the couple, citing personal reasons In their statement to the public, the couple also shared how they thought about the separation and that the decision came after a lot of consideration. 'This was an incredibly difficult decision, not one we made lightly. It came with a lot of thought, and it's been an emotional process for both of us,' they shared in the statement. The couple also recalled their past and mentioned how they met was a 'unique and unexpected way.' To conclude the statement, the duo shared how grateful they are for everyone and everything and even asked their fans and the public for some time and 'compassion' during the hard times. They ended their statement by saying, 'We'll always be grateful for the love and memories we shared. There's not one thing we would change, and we continue to have deep respect and care for one another.' How Colleen and Matt came to be Colleen Reed and Matt Bolton met and got together on one of the older seasons of 'Love is Blind'. The duo had not entirely been the public's favourite couple, with many citing that they do not seem like they are meant for one another. Another controversy that had hit the couple when during the show, after Colleen had accepted Matt's proposal, she had gone forth and flirted with fellow contestant Cole Barnett in front of the camera. Matt on relationship with Colleen The two have also done interviews in the past where they have mentioned and talked about one another. In a 2022 statement to People, Matt had talked about being with Colleen and seeing her for the first time on the show. He had shared that from the moment he saw her, he knew that they 'had too much potential'. 'We saw so much potential, and it was just on the day of, we still didn't know. But when I saw her walking down the aisle, I was like, 'Listen, we've good potential, This is such a great moment. We are meant for each other.' So we just had to do it. Can't pass it up."
Daily Mirror
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Netflix's Love Is Blind fan-favourite couple split after four years of marriage
Love Is Blind stars Colleen Reed and Matt Bolton of series three have announced the end of their four year marriage after meeting on the Netflix show back in 2022 Love Is Blind stars Colleen Reed and Matt Bolton have split following nearly four years of marriage. Fans of the show saw the couple's love blossom on the popular Netflix show during season three which aired in 2022 but now, in a shocking joint statement the pair confirmed they have broken up. Taking to social media on Friday 23, the statement read: "We wanted to share something personal, and this is not easy to do, but after nearly four years together, we've decided to end our marriage and move forward on our own paths. " They added: "We've been separated for some time now and have being our best to work through everything privately and with care." The couple appeared to be one of the show's success stories but it looks as though things were not quite as smooth as it seemed. Both Matt, 31 and Colleen, 29, told fans that their decision to call time on their marriage was not an easy one but will continue to share "love" and "respect" for one another. The statement continued: "We met in the most unique and unexpected way, and we'll always be grateful for the love and memories we've shared. There's not one thing we would change and we continue to have deep respect and care for one another." Matt and Colleen's love story started when the couple first met behind a screen and got to know each other based on a number of conversations about core values and shared goals. And it certainly did not take long before they realised they were meant to be together. In the pods, Matt then asked Colleen to marry him and it was at this point Colleen, who had never seen Matt before, said yes. But their romance hit a few road blocks along the way as the pair found themselves in a number of arguments. One of which was centred around their fellow castmate Cole Barnett as she told him she would be attracted to him "in the real world." This was also coupled with Colleen's desire to continue her social life as she enjoyed going out with friends, which was the opposite to Matt. However, despite their differences, they decided to tie the knot. But it looked as though there was still a lot of trouble in paradise if Matt's interview with PEOPLE was anything to go by. He told the publication back in November 2022: "Obviously there were a lot of conversations that you guys didn't see. Going through those, I'm glad that we did go through those little stir-ups though because it allowed us to learn how we handle certain things." He added: "We saw so much potential, and it was just on the day of, we still didn't know. But when I saw her walking down the aisle, I was like, 'Listen, we've got too much potential'. 'This is such a great moment. We are meant for each other.' So we just had to do it. Can't pass it up." And during the reunion show, fans noticed Colleen's unease despite talking about the strong connection they felt towards one another. Addressing fan reaction, the reality TV star told Cosmopolitan magazine: "Going into the reunion, I was not in good headspace as I was dealing with a lot of anxiety due to the negative commentary I had endured during the first few episodes." She continued: "While I knew what I had signed up for, at that point I was not prepared for the gravity of strangers critiquing my profession that I am incredibly proud of, my character, and tearing down my body/physical traits." Another reason fans questioned the longevity of their relationship was down to the fact they had not moved in together after their wedding. And once again, Colleen decided to quell speculation when she appeared on Deepti and Natalie Lee's podcast Out of the Pods, two years ago. At the time she said: "To kind of adapt to now living with someone, it takes a while. It takes a second, and both of us didn't want to rush changing that, all of a sudden expediting that for other people."
