This film explores the life of a woman who struggles with her life after returning to home. The woman was kiddnapped since along time, and she returned. Now, this young woman remembers and struggles t feel again.
From its opening scene, the film feels desaturated and airless, as if the intrusion of energy or color might upset the characters' delicate task of healing.
The tone-deaf misjudgment of the film's second half is catastrophic; a bafflingly ill-advised blunder that "Stockholm, Pennsylvania" can never recover from.
Strong performances from Saoirse Ronan and Cynthia Nixon keep Stockholm, Pennsylvania intense and absorbing, but Nicole Beckwith's initial impulse to tell her confinement story as a stage play feels as if it might have been a sounder choice.
