She Came to Me

A wry comedy in the tradition of Alan Rudolph and Peter Bogdanovich, SHE CAME TO ME centres on Steven (Peter Dinklage), a modern opera composer whose previous opus resulted in an emotional breakdown so severe that he ended up marrying his therapist Patricia (Anne Hathaway), an obsessive-compulsive clean freak. On her recommendation, Steven takes a walk one day to clear his head and meets Katrina (Marisa Tomei), a tugboat captain and recovering love and sex addict. An ill-advised tryst turns Steven’s world upside down, but also provides the inspiration for his production: the story of a murderous tugboat captain who lures men to their deaths.
Patricia’s cleaning woman Magdalena (Joanna Kulig) and her pompous husband (Brian d’Arcy James) round out the ensemble. Rebecca Miller (MAGGIE’S PLAN, PERSONAL VELOCITY) has created a bittersweet roundelay, driven by the manifold ways in which ordinary people cope with loneliness and alienation. SHE CAME TO ME is a film about fundamental human questions. Does creation always entail a fear of death? Is love at first sight always pathological? And why is it so difficult to move a dog from the galley to the main deck? (Michael Sicinski)

Rebecca Miller: ANGELA (1995), PERSONAL VELOCITY (2002), THE BALLAD OF JACK AND ROSE (2004), THE PRIVATE LIVES OF PIPPA LEE (2009), MAGGIE’S PLAN (2015), ARTHUR MILLER: WRITER (2017)