Causeway Score Details “Causeway is a modest, at times deeply moving drama that lets Jennifer Lawrence turn in a return-to-form lead performance.” Pros Cons She wants to brush her teeth, but she can’t. That’s the image from Causeway’s haunting prologue that I haven’t been able to forget. It’s not the vacancy in Jennifer Lawrence’s eyes, nor the way she stays half-turned like a figure in a still painting for the entirety of the film’s static first shot.
Causeway introduces us to Lynsey , a military engineer, sometime after she was involved in a traumatic explosive attack in Afghanistan. The explosion caused Lynsey to suffer a severe brain injury that, when Causeway begins, has robbed her of most of her major motor skills. With the help of Sharon , a kind nurse who takes Lynsey in, Lawrence’s injured veteran is slowly but surely able to start functioning again.
It’s only after she meets James , an empathetic mechanic, that Lynsey begins to confront, whether willingly or not, her own lingering emotional trauma. The two strike up a quick friendship and it’s not long before Lynsey realizes that James is similarly struggling to come to terms with losses from his past, which seem to haunt him with literally every step he takes. Once the two begin to bond, Causeway joins the same talky, lonely subgenre as films like Columbus and Lost in Translation.
That means Causeway largely relies on Lawrence’s star performance to not only communicate her character’s thoughts, but also provide it with the kind of emotional heft that it might otherwise lack. Lawrence is, thankfully, up to the task, and her performance here is the best she’s given in years.
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