She Came to Me (2023)

The Plot of She Came to Me: Steven Lauddern is a composer who is stuck for a new opera. His wife, Patricia is a psychiatrist who is an obsessive cleaner. She has a son from an earlier relationship, Julian, who has a girlfriend, Tereza. Teraza’s mother is the Lauddern’s cleaner and her father, Trey, is a court reporter and Civil War re-enactment nut. One day Steven is out with his dog when he stops at a dockside bar for a drink, and is engaged in conversation and then more by Katrina, a tugboat captain. The tryst unblocks him and he writes his opera. Meanwhile Julian, 18, and Tereza, 16, tell their respective parents that they are a couple and have been doing it, much to everyone’s distress, Trey threatening court action which would make Julian a paedophile. Meanwhile Patricia goes off the deep end, stripping off in front of a patient who is obsessed with seeing her naked. And there is more!

Content: The sexiest event in the film is Katrina stripping off her boiler suit to reveal an erotic bustier. There is also some drinking. Patricia also undresses in front of her patient, but no actual nudity. She also cleans obsessively, wearing a lab coat. The young people get together seeming to be very smug. Trey while not being controlling of his family can be seen at the civil war re-enactments. Once Katrina and Steven have been together she stalks him, believing there is more in their relationship. Peter composes his opera and we see it, and then another one. Quite a bit of time is spent on the tugboat, also called Katrina, particularly after the young people admit they have been doing it.

A View: This film has had a limited release and has not made any money, but it is out in Spain so my wife and I were able to see it on Friday. It is fatuous, but neither of us looked at our watches even once, so it rolls along. There are even a couple of laugh out loud jokes. We did not like the young people much and their involvement in sex, with the possibility of statuary rape and Julian being a paedophile might only be possible in New York State where the age of consent is 17. The law is complex in America. I can only say that the film deserves a wider distribution than it has had so far, so see it if you can and would like a light-hearted evening out.

Fun Fact: As a former mariner I have always been irritated by the fact that in the movies the wheelhouse lights are always left on at night, meaning no-one can see out. But I noted that the Katrina’s wheelhouse lights were out at night. Great!