Female Film Critics 24/375
Together, a predominantly two-person show, hits all the dissonant notes of the pandemic. It is a brutal wake-up call to factually and accurately recall the complicated layers of what this past year-and-a-half was like, but it does so with riveting edgy humor that slices through you to make you chuckle, acknowledging its reality.
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I was not ready for the emotional roller coaster that is Together. It is funny and sad, sometimes in the same breath. It is a film so fresh and raw that it almost feels like you shouldn’t be watching it, and in more ways than one. It’s absolutely stupendous, a small — so very small — film that is hugely moving…
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Trust Stephen Daldry to direct an efficient and profound film set in the first year of the pandemic. In Together, Daldry manipulates his cameras to vary the single set required by a lockdown. He wrings from the actors a variety of uses of Dennis Kelly’s script — now sexy banter, now rapid-fire fusillades of anger, now woebegone exhaustion.
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