Under the direction of Sam Mendes, in his fourth film is that the shocking Kate Winslet is reunited with Leonardo DiCaprio, both embodying a couple in crisis, in the film called "Revolutionary Road".
After eleven years of their debut as a couple in “Titanic”, In this film they find themselves suffering from a crisis that occurred over the years that they have been together as a couple, having to tolerate children, customs, and themselves, in a New York in the fifties.
Mendes has previously dazzled us with his exquisite and delicate line that he achieves on the personalities and behaviors of the characters. Already with "American Beauty”(“ American Beauty ”) had us astonished about her crude account of the“ American way of life ”. Well, in this film he is not far behind, and he is committed to tripling the concept.
Kate plays April, a woman who had to abandon her dreams of being an actress, to become an ideal housewife, mother and wife, in a neighborhood of ideal women, just to perfectly comply with what society imposes on them. The story, therefore, focuses on Winslet's point of view, in terms of the fact that the director placed more emphasis on the role of women in the North American ideal.
The film is based on the book by Richard Yates, "Revolutionary Road”, Appeared in 1961 in bookstores in the United States. In the adaptation, the key points of a timeless plot are kept, although many elements of the book could not be lowered to the script due to generational dysfunctions.
The film has already been released in theaters in the United States, and will hit theaters around the world in January next year.