We live a very different story. It tells a different kind of drama about a man named Keith Reynolds, a high school music teacher married to Megan who lives in a small town near New York City. There may be many surprises Keith experiences in his life, as he abandoned his career as a musician after the arrival of their daughter Lauren. Soon after, Sophie's family is hosting Sophie for a semester and she may have a surprise with her that may change things and events. Sophie reveals her talent for Keith, who appears to be a brilliant musician and co-exist with Keith in a new romantic way. The story is quite different, as Keith and Sophie start a love relationship and spend their time talking about running away together to try a new love experience for both of them.
Every moment between stars Guy Pearce and Felicity Jones feels so much like an explosion about to go off that viewers may hesitate to so much as take a breath at the wrong time for fear of disturbing the film's delicate equilibrium.
Buoyed by some nicely nuanced performances (especially by Pearce and Amy Ryan as his dream-dashing wife), Breathe In never quite rises above its predictable potboiler premise.
Jones, outstanding as the other woman in Fiennes's "The Invisible Woman," seems adrift here and Ryan's Megan projects no desires past maintaining the status quo.
A breathy tale of a not-quite love affair, Drake Doremus' "Breathe In" is yet another skillfully acted indie drama that's never quite good enough to be memorable.
Orange County Register
April 03, 2014
The superb acting can't turn narrative lead into gold with this story about the attraction of a foreign-exchange student pianist to her married host and teacher.
There's something flimsy and unformed at these characters' cores, something that no amount of jumpy close-ups, skittering sideways glances, and rainy music can make up for.
