The performance of the week turns out to be in Rabbit Hole, a gruelling, wordy drama about a couple (Aaron Eckhart and Nicole Kidman) suffering after the accidental death of their four-year-old son.Sensitively directed by John Cameron Mitchell, it looks like an opened-out stage play, and it is. Although it’s sad, it avoids miserabilism, because it is leavened by touches of humour and a refusal to wallow. The reason to see it is Kidman. She’s wonderfully transparent, subtle and honest. This is an astonishing performance, rightly Oscar-nominated.
But though the play won a Pulitzer prize, the film will struggle to find an audience.
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