Her mother Susanna ( Julianne Moore) is a rock star, working on a new album, and her father Beale ( Steve Coogan) is a businessman, always on his cell phone. Maisie lives with her parents in a beautiful Tribeca apartment. The result is a painful and often infuriating film, with a sense of unnamed terror flickering on the periphery: What effect will these events have on Maisie as she grows up? Does anyone care? When connecting links are lost, when a collage of images takes the place of exposition, it is because a 6-year-old girl is our guide. Henry James' book was told entirely from Maisie's point of view, and the film is courageous enough to attempt the same thing. The story is harrowing in its depiction of an almost-casual loss of innocence. "What Maisie Knew," set in contemporary Manhattan, follows the events in question through the eyes of a 6-year-old girl ( Onata Aprile) as she tries to interpret the often-incomprehensible behavior of adults who use her as a pawn in the war they are waging against each other. James didn't pull his punches, and (except for occasionally) neither does the modern-day film of this tale, co-directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel. "The words were an epitaph for the tomb of Maisie's childhood," James writes, and the novel's events go downhill from there. On the second page of What Maisie Knew, Henry James' 1897 novel about the divorce of two wretchedly selfish people and the effect it has on their young daughter Maisie, an acquaintance expresses sympathy for the girl.
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