“Sideways” filmmaker Alexander Payne brings audiences to a New England boarding school in 1970 in “The Holdovers,” about three lonely and mismatched souls stuck together over Christmas break.
This image released by Focus Features shows Da’Vine Joy Randolph, from left, Paul Giamatti and Dominic Sessa in a scene from “The Holdovers.” This image released by Focus Features shows Dominic Sessa, left, and Paul Giamatti in a scene from “The Holdovers.” This image released by Focus Features shows Dominic Sessa in a scene from “The Holdovers.” This image released by Focus Features shows Dominic Sessa, from left, Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Paul Giamatti in a scene from “The Holdovers.
With its knowingly retro production titles starting the film, “The Holdovers” lets you settle in and submit to something that could very well have been made in the time it was set,” a soothing and melancholy tune that perfectly sets the tone and place, feels like a forgotten Cat Stevens melody — not something from the past decade. It’s all part of the transportive magic of the experience.
The actors get to explore depths beyond the tropes of the cranky teacher, the depressed cook and the privileged jerk as they clumsily try to navigate an unpleasant situation. To make matters even bleaker, food deliveries stop over the break and the heat is turned off everywhere but the infirmary, where they must bunk in sad hospital beds for the duration.
Randolph also adds turbulent emotion to what could have been a tertiary, one-note character consumed in grief. She is in grief, which comes on in both expected and unexpected ways, but she’s also witty and wise and a perfect foil to Paul’s didactics.
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