Parallel: 2½
LET THEM ALL TALK: At the start of this pandemic, we all watched a 2011 Steven Soderbergh film called
Contagion about a pandemic. Now here’s the latest from him, a bright and witty film about literary matters and reconnecting with old friends and healing old hurts. Its discussions are mature, and the ambience in which they’re delivered is completely natural. That’s because the actors weren’t given lines to speak, only outlines of what each scene was about and what it was to achieve. The rest was improvisation. And what a cast, led by Meryl Streep, Candice Bergen, Dianne Wiest and Lucas Hedges.