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Review: “I’m Your Woman”
The Rachel Broshanan thriller vehicle has impactful things to say about crime cinema, but its flawed execution leaves much to be desired.
In the very brief allotment of time devoted to exposition at the beginning of the sleek neo-noir thriller I’m Your Woman, the viewer is instructed to place attention on a perspective rather than a plot. We look through the eyes of Jean (Rachel Broshanan), a young woman living in suburban isolation while her husband Eddie (Bill Heck) engages in the kind of organized high-crime that would endanger Jean if she were to be let in on.
Eddie returns home one afternoon holding an infant boy of unknown origin as a gift for Jean, who is unable to have children. Sometime later, Jean is abruptly woken in the night by an ally of Eddie’s, who informs her that something has happened and she and the baby must leave the house. She receives $200,000 in a satchel and is given to a stranger named Cal (stage veteran Arinzé Kene) to be relocated. The movie begins in earnest here, less than ten minutes into its runtime and with precious few details spared about its characters and world.
The overt presences of ambiguity and contextual disorientation reflect Jean’s standing as a protagonist who lives on the margins of events that a crime film of…