“I thought she was too young,” Rebecca Miller said of casting forty-something Robin Wright in the starring role of her latest film, “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee.” Making its Gotham ...

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (R) Screen Media (93 min.) Directed by Rebecca Miller. With Robin Wright, Keanu Reeves, Maria Bello. Now playing in New York, and in Montclair at the Clairidge.

While the film marks a change of pace from the intense seriousness of Miller’s earlier work, she never finds the dark comic edge that would make “Pippa” more satisfying viewing. Indeed ...

The frequent flashbacks to her youth form a secondary narrative of their own, gradually filling in the blanks of Pippa's present. Miller weaves the two stories together skillfully, though ...

This is the protagonist’s rabid beginning in The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, the newest film from writer/director Rebecca Miller. “I happen to have a friend who was born furry. Her mother did ...

If anyone can knit the unraveling title character in The Private Lives of Pippa Lee into a recognizable ... production by writer-director Rebecca Miller (Personal Velocity), adapted from Miller ...

Rebecca Miller's debut novel tells the story of a woman divided against herself. Emerging from a family tradition of smother love, Pippa Lee is pacified with a baby's bottle until the age of 12.