Film Review – Being the Ricardos

The very idea of a movie detailing the domestic and professional relationship between Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz is chilling. Expectations for a monumentally broad understanding of talent and impatience immediately fall into place, with caricature typically the only avenue available for this type of endeavor. Few want to see that, and this includes writer/director Aaron Sorkin, who was last seen on screens drilling into political and judicial history with “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” and returns to pressure points of judgment and conformity with “Being the Ricardos,” which attempts to understand the experience shared between Ball and Arnez as they experience a particularly punishing week in their lives. Sorkin doesn’t want a cartoon with the picture, finding a more human approach to the bigness of these personalities, out to analyze their insecurities and mistakes while ruling television as America’s favorite couple. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com