Watch: Una 2016 123movies, Full Movie Online – When a young woman unexpectedly arrives at her much-older former lover’s workplace, looking for answers, the secrets of their dark past threaten to unravel his new life. What follows is an emotional and unflinching excavation of inappropriate love, with shattering consequences..
Plot: When a young woman unexpectedly arrives at an older man’s workplace, looking for answers, the secrets of the past threaten to unravel his new life.
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An acting showcase for its two on-song leads
Una is uncomfortable and unnerving viewing, a film that will make your skin crawl on more than one occasion but thanks to some award worthy turns from its impressive lead performers, Benedict Andrews film is noteworthy as a character driven, dialogue heavy expose of some very heavy material.Andrews film, which is based on David Harrower’s esteemed play, keeps its stage play roots well and truly at the forefront as Rooney Mara’s tormented Una takes a road trip to confront Ben Mendelsohn’s factory foreman Peter, a man she knows from her childhood as Ray and a man with whom she had an illegal relationship with as a 13 year old teenage girl.
Largely taking place in Peter’s workplace as he and Una discuss what happened, what could’ve been and what they feel, we get brief yet confronting flashbacks to Peter and Una’s forbidden affiliation but mostly Andrews is focussing solely on Mara and Mendelsohn as the two competent performers work off each other too slowly tear away the layers to reveal their true motivations and inward thoughts.
Mara once again shows she is willing to be laid bare as an actress in another noteworthy turn while Mendelsohn, who has recently been cast more as a purely bad guy type role, gets one of his meatiest feature film roles yet as Peter.
His far from a likable or respectable person but Mendelsohn plays him to perfection, giving Peter just the right amount of humanity and against all the odds moments of compassion.
It’s a role that could’ve fallen either way but the Aussie actor once more showcases why his regarded now as one of our all-time great exports. With Mara he shares a wonderful energy, while with the younger Una played by Ruby Stokes, Mendelsohn plays the role not predatory but more purely sad, a man consumed by feelings and urges that lead him to make his life’s biggest mistake.
Una’s greatest flaw as a film and ability too fully connect is strangely with the character of Una herself.
We feel her pain and understand the confusion and mental strain that has been bought down upon her but her reasoning behind confronting Peter and then her subsequent decisions from there are not that easy to understand. For a film that in many ways feels so realistic and raw, Una’s consistently odd behaviour is hard to take, even when at times she is a heartbreakingly broken soul searching for closure on her past.
Final Say –
Not what you’d call an entertaining watch, thanks to some dark subject material and sombre to bleak tone, Una is an immaculately acted tale whose flawed characters don’t always connect but thanks to Mara and Mendelsohn and Andrews carefully weighted hand behind-camera, this is a bleak drama that’s a cut-above many similar productions.
3 ½ Ferris Wheel rides out of 5
Shadow of love, brutal charm & broken promise
Fifteen years after the crime and Ray still pulls at the heartstrings of Una. It is the shadow of love, a brutal charm and broken promise that brings her back to confront him in search of answers. In flashbacks to a Ferris wheel, courtroom and cottage by the seashore, the emotional carnage of two fractured lives is gradually revealed. Una struggles to find meaning in the answers provided by Ray as well as those from inside her heart.This character driven psychological thriller stars Rooney Mara and Ben Mendelsohn. Each actor specializes and excels in such roles about damaged psyches, and they continue to shine here. Wonderful cinematography, direction and music contribute to heighten the emotional impact of the story. The film is based on the play Blackbird by David Harrower. Just released to Netflix snail mail catalog.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 34 min (94 min)
Budget 0
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Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama
Director Benedict Andrews
Writer David Harrower
Actors Ruby Stokes, Rooney Mara, Riz Ahmed
Country United Kingdom, Canada, United States
Awards 3 nominations
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Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Hawk V-Lite 1.3x Anamorphic Lenses
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Printed Film Format Digital (Digital Cinema Package DCP)