One Fine Day

If I've ever seen this movie before, I must have been feeling foggy. Or maybe I wasn't mature yet. In any case, this is perfection itself. The compact functionality is almost fascinating, with what clarity and insignificant plot you can play out an entire film based on a single confusing day that someone just keeps making more complicated. The essential charm, of course, stands and falls with the perfectly invisible formal aspects and the acting performances of the naturally beautiful and genuine Michelle and the surprisingly unobtrusive George. The two are not exemplary opposites. Instead, they are incredibly close precisely because of their openness toward their children and their efforts to balance caring for them with their careers. There's nothing here that poses major obstacles to the narrative, and it's just a pure depiction of the 1990s phenomenon. The pressure of single motherhood coupled with an ambitious career and bon vivantism with a distance from responsibility was at its peak. And then it was the turn of the fish and the beautiful Lois Lane to help steer everything toward the perfect ending. (06/18/2012)