But instead of plying, pulling and pushing, Cave seems distracted by trying to make her colorful directorial vision align with Andrew Sodroski’s pallid script, with Kidman left to pull out inspired bits of pastry-driven character work where she can.

Kidman stars as a Michigan teacher and housewife whose life threatens to unravel when she suspects her husband (Matthew Macfadyen) of having an affair.

Is this how Minnesotans felt when they saw Fargo? Nicole Kidman stars in this long-in-the-works movie set in (but only fractiona