Lars and the Real Girl

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© A.J. Malouin 2008

(Ratings: 1 by Al, and 2 by Caryl.)
(See our side-bar page “How Caryl & Al Rate Movies”)

(2007/USA. Directed by Craig Gillespie.)

This is one of the best films of 2007!

When they saw it together in-theatre, Caryl noted that the full range of human emotions were exposed and explored in this film. Al sobbed aloud four or five times at the beauty of this film, each time for longer than he should have.

Our story?? It’s of Lars, a man who is incapable of feeling or expressing human emotion. He is a loner who rejects all attempts to touch him, either literally or on an emotional level.

Don’t ask this guy to dinner…because he *ain’t* coming! His sister-in-law knows this: she has tried it time and time again…and almost gotten run over by a car in the process.

One day, however, a huge box arrives at the two-car garage in which Lars lives. After looking at the box for hours, after shaving himself meticulously, after combing his hair perfectly, and after putting on his best sweater, Lars opens the box.

Inside is a life-size doll that Lars has ordered on the internet. It’s the beautiful, well-built, anatomically correct Bianca.

Suddenly Lars becomes social, for he now has a girlfriend. He and Bianca start showing up together all over the place.

Everyone in town is stunned.

Soon everyone in town goes along with the story.

The life-size doll Bianca gets a job. She gets her hair styled. She starts volunteering at the hospital. She is in such demand that Lars gets annoyed mightily.

Ultimately, the decision Lars makes shows that he knows how to heal himself.

Meanwhile, the story is exhilarating!

Ryan Gosling is amazing as Lars.

Bianca plays the life-size, anatomically correct doll without a single misstep.

The cast of supporting actors is, however, the true gold in this film.

Emily Mortimer steals the film as Karin, Lars’ sister-in-law who worries about Lars before he finds Bianca— and then Really worries about him *after* he finds Bianca.

Paul Schneider is perfect as Lars’ brother, Gus. He gently, beautifully discloses the nature of the rupture between himself and Lars. Looking like furniture in the beginning of the film, he sweetly peels away the layers of himself as an onion would…if it could.

Kelli Garner is superb as Margo, a co-worker of Lars’ who has an unswerving crush on him all through the time when Lars is bringing his life-size-doll-girfriend to the office Christmas Party…to the church congregation…to the grocery store.

Patricia Clarkson is stunning as Dagmar, the town doctor with a psychology degree who tries to hoist the entire town aboard the Bianca bandwagon. Like Lars, she, too, is lonely and isolated. “Some days I’m sooooo lonely that I forget what day it is…or how to spell my name.”

In addition to those excellent performances, there is an entire town full of great supporting actors.

Ring leader among them is R.D. Reid as Reverend Bock. When the town is trying to decide whether the life-size anatomically correct doll Bianca should be admitted to the congregation, Reverent Bock summarizes, “The real question is, actually, the same as it always is: What would Jesus do?”

Jesus apparently is compassionate toward life-size dolls.

The way the entire town — and this is some 12 to 18 different additional supporting actors! — reacts to and then gets behind the life-size anatomically correct doll Bianca is awe-inspiring and life-affirming.

Somewhere into the third act, you are probably going to guess what Lars is going to do to make himself healthy and whole. The fact that you may have guessed it doesn’t detract, at all, from the pleasure of watching it happen. Do not miss renting this film for the largest screen you can find.

It is the best of 2007!

(1 hr 46. Rated PG-13 in the USA. In English. With Paul Schneider as Gus; R.D. Reid as Reverend Bock; Emily Mortimer as Karin; Nicky Guadagni as Mrs. Petersen; Ryan Gosling as Lars Lindstrom; Liz Gordon as Mrs. Schindler; Kelli Garner as Margo; Patricia Clarkson as Dagmar; Nancy Beatty as Mrs. Gruner, and; many many others in superb supporting roles.)