The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby

Exceptionally crafted story of true love, heartbreak and experience.

Beautiful film; deep, sad and promising at the same time. Jessica Chastain’s performance is superb.

James McAvoy possesses a truly diabolical amount of charisma and talent - but this film uses about 2% of his gifts. Jessica Chastain has a cool outer toughness and fiery inner steeliness that I tend to admire - neither of which are utilized by this material. Their characters in this film have ZERO personality - Eleanor being endlessly sad or listening to bad music on the car radio whilst chomping Twizzlers does not a personal make; Connor trading toothless insults with his best friend and being a stalkery bore are...boring, which this actor NEVER is. Both leads were miscast - both are far too old and both have an innately powerful persona which makes them not at all believeable as drippy, uninteresting, directionless, sad hipsters. It's a shame because this is inherently rich subject matter, but the execution at script level and in the direction is very poor and lets them both down entirely. Note: I rented the film, which gives you the "Them" version of the story. What masochist would ever watch "Him", "Her", and "Them"?