In Maps to the Stars, which was released here yesterday, Julianne Moore gives an astonishingly brave performance as Havana Segrand, a fading, paranoid movie actress whose fragile grip on reality slips entirely after she hires a strange young
girl as her personal assistant.
It's Greta Gerwig's Florence, a sweetly and convincingly fumbling
personal assistant who can organize any life but her own, who comes out
as a fully formed human being, and Gerwig herself (once called the poster
girl for the indie movement known
as «mumblecore») shows herself
as a talent to watch for.