When white-haired Mary descends on her three daughters in Dallas for an impromptu visit, she brings them rosaries. “The hearts of men are naked baby rats,” she tells them, meaning it tenderly. So are her sisters, steeped from birth as they all are in reverence for masculinity. To the women in Will Arbery’s sly, elusive, off-kilter comedy “Plano,” the male presence is a loud, insistent thing. Hers is, by the way, very much a male deity.

Source: New York Times April 14, 2019 18:57 UTC