![]() ![]() ![]() Conversations With Friends charts Frances’ halting journey toward bridging the disconnect between theory and practice, head and heart, with patience and a perceptive eye for detail. “It’s not real crying,” she insists while wiping away her tears.īut as the weeping suggests, she has great reservoirs of feeling buried away, unacknowledged and unprocessed, and they tend to spring leaks in inconvenient, unpredictable, sometimes destructive ways. Even when she cries during sex, she shrugs it off as a meaningless physical reaction. ![]() ![]() We know this because we can see how she guards her expressions, holds her tongue, deflects well-meaning questions with stoic indifference - but also because she keeps telling people that she isn’t, and being told by them that she isn’t. Frances (Alison Oliver), the protagonist of Conversations With Friends, is not the emotional type. ![]()
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