An Italian summer holiday in the sun — what could go wrong? Well, that holiday, two decades earlier, was a particularly forbidden one for Catherine Ravenscroft — a holiday with catastrophic consequences in the present, leading to a secret she’s kept for 20 years now suddenly blown into the open as if on a coldhearted breeze.
That’s the premise of Alfonso Cuarón’s elegant Apple TV+ adaptation of “Disclaimer,” originally a page-turning 2015 novel by Renée Knight, and now a seven-part series starring a superb Cate Blanchett in one of her finest performances. Equally strong is Leila George as the younger, perhaps idealized version of Catherine in literary flashback, haunted by a brief and doomed romance with Jonathan (Louis Partridge).
In the present day, his cranky, gray-haired father (played by a cranky, gray-haired Kevin Kline) is stalking the adult Ravenscroft (Blanchett) to exact revenge for what happened to her son all those 20 years ago in Italy….
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