Rebecca Miller Talks Exploring Love, Opera and Tugboats in New Film ‘She Came To Me’
variety.comJenelle Riley Deputy Awards and Features Editor In her seven feature films as director, Rebecca Miller has presented indelible, complicated characters rarely seen on the big screen.
One of those films, “Arthur Miller: Writer,” was a documentary about the heralded playwright, her father. But the remaining six narrative films were of her own creation — including the titular 10-year-old obsessed with absolving her sins in “Angela,” the three women at the center of “Personal Velocity” and the young mother who schemes to reunite her husband with his ex in “Maggie’s Plan.”As with her characters, the filmmaker has excelled at presenting unique worlds to the viewer.
That continues with her latest film, “She Came to Me,” opening this weekend and starring Peter Dinklage as opera composer Steven, Anne Hathaway as his therapist wife and Marisa Tomei as a tugboat captain with a love addiction.
Miller knew a bit about the world of opera thanks to her youngest son, who is studying to be a composer. “Through him I started to go to the opera and it occurred to me the character could be someone who composed operas rather than write, which was his original profession,” Miller notes.
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