A bit of a Georgia-centric week it’s been, considering that the made-for-TV movie Georgia O’Keeffe premiered this past Saturday on Lifetime, starring Joan Allen as O’Keeffe and Jeremy Irons as Alfred Stieglitz. The movie opens with O’Keeffe (Allen) stating, “I don’t trust words. Words and I are not good friends at all.”
Good opener.
I thought to myself, This could be good. This could actually be a good movie. I might actually not be embarrassed that I’m a twenty-something sitting down with a cup of tea to a Lifetime original movie. Yet by the end of the movie, I had a stack of magazines on my lap and my teacup was full of gin.
Okay, kidding about the gin. But the movie was a bit lacking—I found myself distracted and uninvolved. I think what it comes down to is that you cannot sum up Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz’s relationship in a two-hour film. You can’t even highlight it, hint at it, hack at it. It was a turbulent ride they took together and the complexity of their relationship was upstaged by words that often seemed forced and false.
So yes, Georgia. I have to agree. “I don’t trust words.” Especially when they’re coming from a Lifetime original movie.
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