Kate Winslet and Sam Mendes Separate.

Kate Winslet and director Sam Mendes have announced that after six years of marriage, they have been separated since the beginning of this year.

They have one child together, Joe Alfie Winslet Mendes, and this is the second marriage for Winslet, who was married to film assistant Jim Threapleton in 1998 before divorcing in 2001, and had one child, Mia.

A lawyer for the couple stated,
“Kate and Sam are saddened to announce that they separated earlier this year. The split is entirely amicable and is by mutual agreement. Both parties are fully committed to the future joint parenting of their children. They ask that the media respect their privacy at this time.”

 So sad. I loved this couple! Hopefully they can work things out.
-CE
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Away We Go.

So after all these months of waiting, I finally saw Away We Go. I was slightly wary because of the review that Lainey (www.laineygossip.com) wrote, where she was...underwhelmed. Disappointed, like I feared I would be.

It was...kismet, or maybe the word is whimsical. Whatever it is you get the idea. Sam Mendes really makes this couple feel ordinary, and yet they are something to aspire to. They are a modern day fairy tale, a couple on a quest to find the perfect place to start their family.

This movie asks the question, what is a family? Maya Rudolph's character Verona's parent's have died, leaving her with just a sister to look to, and John Krasinki's character Burt's parents have abandoned them before the baby is due. They travel the country, observing different ways of existing and interacting within a family, from the crude of Allison Janney and Jim Gaffigan to the crazy-hippy call back of Maggie Gyllanhaal. Even what happens when a person decides to leave their family, and keep them scrambling to fit old pieces into a new puzzle.

This movie was awesome. If you want to leave the theater feeling like true love is possible, give it a try. Plus, almost the entire soundtrack is Alexi Murdoch. Wonderous.

-CE