Female Film Critics 24/375
Puzzle is the story of Agnes (Kelly Macdonald), a shy suburban mom/housewife who spends her days cleaning, cooking, doing church work and basically fulfilling her husband’s and two teenage sons’ every wish. It will come as no surprise to learn that this is not fulfilling for her.
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Puzzle is aptly named for a game and a dilemma. Puzzles are what children do to learn eye/hand coordination. But when Agnes receives a puzzle for her birthday, she is drawn to it like filings to magnet. She is a housewife for a festering man child, who works in a garage and expects his dinner on the table. Imagine his surprise when he finds a puzzle on it instead.
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The opening scene of Puzzle is a hushed horror, I don’t think it’s too extreme to call it, of domestic
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Quiet but quite compelling, Puzzle pieces together the affecting story of a midlife suburban wife and mother (played by the brilliant Kelly Macdonald) whose innate talent for jigsaw puzzling pushes her beyond the borders of her humdrum domestic routine into an adventure of self-discovery.
Kelly Macdonald is never less than good and often much better than that in just about every film and TV
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As producer, Marc Turtletaub has been investing cash and cred in femme-centric feature films since 2004, standing behind award-winning films
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Puzzle opens with a woman (Kelly Macdonald) in an old fashioned dress preparing her home for a birthday party. After
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