![]() ![]() What does that say about the parents and what effect can that have on a child? The mother, Susanna (Julianne Moore), a rock music singer, changes the apartment door locks and the father, Beale (Steve Coogan), a businessman, is heard outside shouting to be let in. We see Maisie at school, then at home making her own sandwich, while the parents argue. The little girl, Maisie (Onata Aprile), whose oval face seems to be filled with so much sweetness and promise, is soon seen accepting a pizza delivery with her young nanny, Margo (Joanna Vanderham), as a parental argument goes on-and the nanny and girl eat on the patio. “Rock a Bye Baby” is sung at the beginning of What Maisie Knew (2013), by a mother to a daughter, and it is both soothing and ominous: “…when the bough breaks, the cradle will fall / and down will come baby, cradle and all.” The film What Maisie Knew (2013), directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel, with a screenplay by Carroll Cartwright and Nancy Doyne, is a rather bracing interpretation of Henry James’s fiction of marriage, divorce, and the misuse of a child. ![]()
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