Claire in Motion

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Alain E @AlainE 06/24/2025 In the first eight minutes we see a young boy who knits (very common in US-not!) and Claire’s husband who recently had an apparently serious dizzy spell, takes off on a survivalist hike that is supposed to last three, four days but he is considered lost the very next morning. Claire is supposedly a mathematician, but the story doesn’t compute. See more Linda T @RT33585404 04/15/2025 I liked Claire's persistence to search for her husband. There were lots of cues to a possible ending. I think he is alive but just wanted to live in the woods after all the clues getting stronger all the time. It didn't make sense the grad student, who seemed to want an affair with him , wasn't distraught he was missing but I could include that as a clue as to how it would end. I agree with the person who liked the police chief, very understanding and also Claire's neighbor was very real/understanding.. See more jwcdood T @jwcdood 05/14/2024 CLAIRE IN MOTION is well done, but the storyline goes nowhere, wanders and then the movie's over. See more ronald h @RT44372985 01/18/2021 _Claire in Motion_ is a self-important, dreary film that strains under the weight of its own metaphors. It's 95 percent atmosphere and 5 percent plot. That might work in a movie in which we actually cared about the characters, but everybody here is so contrived and distant, there's nothing to latch on to emotionally. Claire is a math professor at a small Ohio college (It looks like it was filmed in and around Ohio University in Athens). Her husband Paul, also a professor, goes off on a routine hiking trip (He's an ornithologist) and simply vanishes. But the film isn't about some extensive police search or mystery; it's about Claire and her response to her husband's disappearance. To complicate things, she discovers that he had been spending a lot of time with an attractive grad student. It's not clear if the relationship was sexual, but it was intimate. The grad student knows things about Paul that Claire never knew. It might possibly make for interesting drama if the characters were not so damned unlikeable. Claire is solipsistic and uncommunicative, her prepubescent son is moody and depressive, the grad student is pretentious and obnoxious, and Paul is seen so little that we have no insight into him. I've never understood why filmmakers make movies in which we have no reason to care about the characters. If we can't sympathize or relate to them, who gives a damn what happens to them? The aforementioned metaphors are simplistic and glaring: birds, sky diving--symbols of escape and freedom. A high school student could have come up with this stuff. I watched it to the end, thinking that after wading through all the pretension, I would at least find out what happened to Paul. No big spoiler: It doesn't happen. See more 10/02/2018 Extremely slow character development leaves you feeling like the characters were never individually formed. The ending was vague and again never answered the questions raised during the film. If the final seconds were meant to be "artsy" it was done with crayons in an elementary school. Sad See more 06/01/2018 Total nothing of a.movie. 10 minute plot stretched to fill 90 minutes. "Claire No Motion" is a much more appropriate title. Don't waste your time with this one. See more Read all reviews

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