Review: An Audience of Chairs is a small, graceful study on the rhythms of life GlobeArts
In an understanding, picturesque drama about a mentally ill woman, we see her injured from a fall, desperately trying to make it up a hill, only to slip back down before she reaches the top: A metaphor for the troubles of Maura Mackenzie, the failing, bipolar mother of two daughters and a protagonist pianist who struggles between major and minor keys.
The film’s score is string-laden and sympathetic, with piano moments of Chopin, Mozart and Erik Satie, too. Foley and writer Rosemary House don’t dwell much on the relationship between creativity and mood swings. But flashback sequences involving musical instruction reveal Maura to be haunted by the metronome. A comment, perhaps: that the strict rhythms of life are not for everyone.
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