She came to me, Rebecca Miller, 2023

She came to me, it arrived like this, by chance, like an unexpected event, like an inspiration for writing a show during a walk.

Thus comes life that changes on any given day. Thus they arrive, unexpectedly, at the height of emptiness and darkness, second chances, lives that meet, intersect, change, make mistakes, learn, improve and grow. With the risk, always around the corner, of forgetting who we are or who we have been and perhaps the luck of one day finding someone who reminds us of it.

The writing and direction of Rebecca Miller, an excellent cast (Peter Dinklage, Anne Hathaway, Marisa Tomei), the music of Bryce Dessner (the National), Alexandre Desplat and Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa on the closing credits make for a romantic comedy, a refined film about second chances, about changes and true feelings without sentimentality, about relationships that sink us and those that save us, about everyday life that nourishes the extraordinary and about the highest and noblest art of letting go of the life that happens and of letting ourselves go shattered, into pieces, if necessary, to find ourselves whole perhaps in other forms but remaining faithful to ourselves, always. Because, as the Boss sings, at least "if it isn't love it will always be more than we had planned".