Moviegoer19 I've just watched this for the second time, not remembering if I had seen it before. It's not the kind of movie that hits you over the head or leaves you gasping. But I believe it's a lot better than many of the reviews here say. First off, I believe Betsy Brandt did a fine acting job. She seemed perfect for the part: controlled and contained while giving small signs that she's full of emotion underneath her calm exterior.One of the reviews here questioned how she leaves her son alone... in my opinion she played a mother who was trusting and almost all the time her son listened to what she told him or asked of him. She is also a math professor so that tells you something. Math/Art - Opposites? I admit there were a couple of times in the film when I thought, if it were me I'd be shouting and carrying on, but that's not her personality. Ultimately that's what she winds up questioning because her husband accuses her, before he's disappeared, of not really looking at him. I think this is the essence of the film: a woman is forced by people and events to confront herself and who she is. I have to agree that the ending was a surprise. I also agree I would have preferred a more specific ending, but this one was part of the writer's and director's vision. Maybe they'll do something similar in which the ending is more satisfying.

mscheeqs22 This movie sucked! Don't waste your time. If you are one of those types of people who need a full story line and like for movies to be interesting and have a point, this movie is not for you. I'm not even sure if it ended or if my TV just cut off on its own. I was intrigued at first, but after I realized that it wasn't going anywhere, I couldn't stop watching because I thought I was wrong. Well, I wasn't. It went nowhere. And slowly.

dcotts This movie starts slow, ends slow and never picks up in between. The story is shallow and there is not one question answered. I would have turned it off but I had to see what happened. I still don't know what happened. What a waste of my time. I can't believe anyone wasted money on this.

jtncsmistad If you're one of those who need your movie's to be wrapped up nice and neat and complete with a little bow at their conclusion, with all the loose ends securely tied tight, and each and every question fully answered, then "Claire in Motion" is definitely not the flick for you, my friend.However, if you appreciate a provocative story unfolding layer upon layer, allowing the viewer to absorb and assess what they believe may be happening as the chronicle progresses, and then to subjectively determine on their own what may or may not have happened in the end, then I can not recommend "Claire in Motion" more highly to you.Co-Writers and Directors Annie J. Howell and Lisa Robinson have fashioned an impressively unconventional and beguiling mystery. Their narrative reaches that uncommon emotional place of being both fascinating and unnerving, often times even outright uncomfortable, in terms of how we are moved to feel in our experience as an audience.Betsy Brandt, so extraordinary as Marie Schrader in the eternally iconic "Breaking Bad", is once again superb here as Claire. Brandt gives us a multifarious character whose faith in practically everything in her seemingly idyllic life is joltingly shattered when she comes to learn how she had completely failed to recognize she was systematically losing that which she holds most dear. Claire struggles to remain strong and hold out hope in the face of an increasingly devastating reality which threatens to crush her very soul into shards of regret. Brandt's embodiment of a woman living an endless nightmare day after day after wrenchingly draining day is a powerfully genuine portrayal. It is a mesmeric and stirring personification which, left to a lesser actress, would have almost assuredly registered as merely moribund and morose. Brandt imbues Claire with a far more fully-dimensional sensibility than that which we may typically expect as she creates an unusually complex rendering. Her performance borders on, if it doesn't launch fully into, brilliance.Zev Haworth, appearing in his first feature film, is Claire's adolescent son, Connor. He is a quiet boy, but we sense early on that there is a lot going on inside this young man which he refuses to release, even to his mother. Connor's counselor-recommended letter to his dad near the end of "Claire in Motion" is at once heartfelt and heart destroying. Haworth is a natural wonder. Watch for him in the years to come.And can we get some love for veteran supporting player Anna Margaret Hollyman ("White Reindeer") already? Can we manage to do this, all you Hollywood string-pullers out there? Hollyman's strange yet stunning depiction of the other woman Allison is not only an important role in "Claire", it is a critical component. For it is Allison who provides the voice, as well as the conscience, for the missing husband Paul. We would have never come to at least in part understand Paul if not for this curiously enigmatic art school grad student revealing to us some manner of the "why for" behind a man's bafflingly bizarre behavior. Hollyman's Allison changes as the situation dictates, and her versatility and poignance is as striking as it is searing.Howell and Robinson team in tantalizing tandem with Cinematographer Andreas Burgess's irregular scene framing and unorthodox camera angles and Xander Duell's cosmically disquieting musical score. Their inspired work comes together seamlessly to craft a consistent and entirely appropriate vibe of disorienting otherworldliness which mimics the near-hallucinatory state of being we watch Claire slowly descend into.Ultimately, and in keeping with the dynamic implicit in it's title, "Claire in Motion" is an unflinching examination of the excruciatingly painful process of "moving on" in the wake of unbearable loss, cruelly compounded in this case by the not conclusively knowing if your loved one is truly lost at all.At least in the physical interpretation of the word.******Incidentally, I do not work for a Motion Picture Studio, nor have I ever. I genuinely like the movie. To each his own...kinna makes this ol' world go 'round, don't it? ;]