Toronto film festival: the director goes back to his childhood for an endearing, if overlong, film with an Oscar-tipped Michelle Williams as his mother
teven Spielberg’s uncharacteristically personal drama The Fabelmans is a string of character-defining memories, rare insight into the world’s most famous director who has usually kept us at arm’s length. While his 30-plus movies have mostly traded in warmth and big, IMAX-sized emotion, there’s been an otherness, successfully synthetic but only allowing us a vague idea of who he is as a professional rather than a person.
As his inventive younger self learns how to push the buttons of audiences within the low-budget limitations he’s lumped with , at home his parents are in dire straits. His father’s career ascent has them moving from state to state, adding a strain to their friendship with “uncle” Benny, played byWhile Spielberg avoids the easy, soapy conflicts such a situation could lead to , he also avoids showing us the bigger, messier picture.
At 150-minutes, the most indulgent thing about Spielberg’s nostalgic revisit is the runtime, an overlong trip down memory lane that could have done with some stops removed. But it’s a sweet, at times incredibly endearing, journey back. The Fabelmans is screening at the Toronto film festival and will be released in the US on 11 November
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