Movie Reviews: By the Sea, Grandma, Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict

Set on the south coast of France in the 1970s, By the Sea (15A) centres on married couple Vanessa (Angelina Jolie) and Roland (Brad Pitt), who have left behind New York and all of its distractions in order to focus on revitalising their ailing marriage. 

She’s an actor, he’s a writer, but both are struggling to articulate the words required to honestly address their issues.

Instead, Vanessa pops pills and vegetates on the hotel balcony; Roland heads for the local bar and drowns his sorrows with barman Michel (Niels Arestrup).