First a baggy navy shirt, then a gently skimming cream sweater with sea-blue stripes. At first I thought the film must be set in the 40s or 50s, but really it’s just Agnes’s old fashioned life.Her break out, as she starts moving forward and pushing back, is believable; many of her responses to Louis’s alternate anger, tears and bewilderment were not what I expected, even though the movie moves in an expected direction. We know pretty much what the whole picture will be, but there’s no need to show us.I’m wondering the same thing .. where did she go in the end of the movie ?She goes to Montreal. But the gradual move from plain, dark-coloured shapeless tops to those with slightly more fit, then on to colour and complementary patterns, is a pretty encapsulation of her growing freedom. She dresses in conservative cardigans and skirts and pins her hair back simply, disorienting us at first as to the era in which “Puzzle” takes place. Instead, she went to Montreal which , as you said, completes the puzzle of her own life.OK. This awkward, introverted woman suddenly reveals herself to be a virtuoso who’s totally in command. He’s never cruel or abusive toward her. She told her puzzle partner she decided not to go. Her new and experienced champion puzzler partner Robert (Irrfan Khan) teaches her to take time to walk around the table to get the bigger picture from the piles of tiny pieces, then divide by colour.I used to think jigsaws were dull, and I didn’t have the patience. We know pretty much what the whole picture will be, but there’s no need to show us. Puzzle is a 2018 American drama film directed by Marc Turtletaub and written by Oren Moverman and Polly Mann, based on the 2010 Argentine film of the same name. Initially Agnes (Kelly Macdonald) just turns over the pieces and dives in. Watching other people piece together jigsaw puzzles would not sound like the most inherently cinematic pursuit, nor would it seem to provide much opportunity for character development. Share Share Tweet Email.
And Agnes’s flashes of passion when faced with both the slightly dishevelled Robert and a particularly fiendish section of jigsaw are a delight.It doesn’t all ring true.
You could probably also add to that Jesus and her priest, who has a circle of women keeping all the church events and outreach going.This is a slow-burn movie and at times I was desperate for us to get back to the buzz of another puzzle, which though a criticism is only a slight one – these puzzlers are fast. She's also on Twitter @christylemire and on Facebook at
He doesn’t even believe in pattern; to Robert, his life has proved it’s all coincidence. More generally, Turtletaub has some difficulty ending the film, which resolves itself with one too many closeups of Macdonald gazing out at the world, whether from a lakeshore or a … We are not surprised by her interest in this puzzle, as we have already seen her assemble the pieces of a plate that broke during the party; as well, we know that the salad she made for her guests resembled a puzzle. Thanks to independent films, they have no problem taking this chance. The night of her party, her husband Louis (David Denman) breaks a pretty plate; while she searches under a chair for the missing piece it’s clear she needs to find it to complete the puzzle rather than, as she claims, to stop someone standing on it and hurting themselves.Soon she’s travelling to the New York puzzle shop where her Aunt Emily brought her the jigsaw; then, after seeing a note there from expert puzzler Robert asking for a new puzzle partner, uses Aunt Emily’s broken foot as an excuse to travel to the city to train with him for the national championships.An avid watcher of bad news from around the world, Robert does puzzles to bring order to the chaos of existence, from exploding volcanos to his own one-off invention that has accidentally made him millions. Comment. But the puzzle and the phone together become the tools she ultimately uses to explore the world outside her insular cocoon of blue-collar Bridgeport, Connecticut.Agnes eventually works up the nerve to hop on a train to New York City, where she discovers an entire store full of complicated puzzles for her to explore, as well as an unlikely friendship with a champion puzzler named Robert who seeks a partner for an upcoming competition.
The ending is what could best be described as finishing a complicated jigsaw and finding the last few pieces missing.
Whether it was her late immigrant father, her mechanic husband, Louie (But one of the gifts she receives is a jigsaw puzzle, which she spontaneously sits down and quickly completes at the dining room table one afternoon. So she decided to go her own way? I am confused as I don’ quite understand what was in Montreal for her?For me, Montreal is Leonard Cohen. She not to stay with EITHER men? Puzzle is one of the few movies that they make anymore, in which plot is traded in for emotional depth. Watch the Puzzle trailer here: She is now completing the puzzle of her own life. The most difficult part of a story to nail down is the conclusion. He’s grown accustomed to having dinner waiting for him on the table when he comes home from a long day’s work, because that’s the way it’s always been.
They’re all just looking for a piece of something that feels real and true—a missing piece that will complete them.“Puzzle” wisely doesn’t complete the whole picture in easy or obvious ways, but rather gives us the space to consider the solutions for ourselves.Christy Lemire is a co-host of the YouTube film review show "What the Flick?!"
Even though she keeps her day trips and puzzling a secret from her family—and she’s a surprisingly cool liar—she does so through her own sense of insecurity.