As with Reese Witherspoon’s character in “ Wild,” it’s the female journey of self-discovery and empowerment that “Big Eyes” is interested in. ![]() Portrayed by Amy Adams in a restrained, mouselike performance, Keane comes across as sympathetic but not terribly deep, an admirably hardworking single mom interested in numerology and spirituality, but too skittish and afraid to verbalize what drives and frightens her the most. Best known for her sticky-sweet paintings of doe-eyed waifs that became the middlebrow rage in the late 1950s and 1960s, then kitschy collectibles of high-ironic style decades later, Keane seems like the ideal subject for Burton: a visual-art analogue to filmmaker Ed Wood, to whom Burton paid homage so gloriously in a 1994 film.Īlthough suffused with similar period design elements, “Big Eyes” doesn’t approach the sublime or subversive heights of “ Ed Wood.” Written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karazsewski, the film has a much more conventionally uplifting feel, which probably suits its protagonist more than the usual Burton combination of worship and winking playfulness. True, Burton directed the film, whose subject, the painter Margaret Keane, he has long admired. To call “ Big Eyes” a Tim Burton movie is a bit of a bait and switch.
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