Embodying the struggles of Margaret Keane, a talented painter, who faces many difficulties to make her own, as she tries again and again to achieve exceptional success after leaving her husband, Walter, who market her paintings as his own.
Bright yet disturbing, Big Eyes is both an indicator of just how far women have come in the past 60 years and a comment on the commercialisation of pop culture.
The 106-minute drama is always watchable, and works no less and no more than a two-dimensional portrait that catches the eye and suggests deeper meaning than is actually present.
For all its tonal shifts and erratic pacing, the film is Burton's heartfelt tribute to the yearning that drives even the most marginalized artist to self expression no matter what the hell anyone thinks.
New York Magazine/Vulture
December 29, 2014
Adams is lovely and tremulous, but Big Eyes would be even better if Waltz was in the same key.
Big Eyes is Tim Burton's second foray into strange but true stories of American termite art culture... a story about the pain behind the façade of happiness and success.
Burton had a chance to make a powerful statement on the struggle for a woman to achieve artistic recognition and instead settled for another childlike fairy tale.
