really odd framing device to have a man narrate what is the story of, simplistically speaking, a woman’s liberation lol but cute ! i love magaret keane’s work and i meant to watch this when it came out when i was 13 but uh 10 years late is fine too 

totally understand why people are saying this doesn’t feel like burton but all his stylistic tendencies are still there, particularly in the locations and cinematography, it’s just toned down a ton. i agree with the criticism that he wasn’t the right choice for this film but i also can’t really see another director doing anything more exemplary with the material when the script is so, fine ?

anyway lowkey you could make a biggg stretch if you wanna go for an authorial reading that this is lowkey burton and caroline thompson considering she is his most well known behind the scenes female collaborator and simultaneously constantly erased from the discussion around his work and during that period of collaboration in the 90s she was also his girlfriend but also as much as i give burton shit, he’s no hack like walter keane even if he fell off hard