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And then one development leads to another and everything leads up to a final scene and a final shot that I found myself rejecting emotionally.
I know in the real world that what happens at the end of the movie is likely enough. Meanwhile Angela becomes obsessed with Christina and visits her daily in the hospital, giving her spiritual sustenance and getting her to start to talk in a limited way.
The story will steer us safely past unacceptable despair. But other outcomes are possible, and given the places the movie took me and the implicit promises it made, I found no release and closure in the ending.
I found the opening third tremendously intriguing and involving, I thought the emotions were so real they could be touched, but then the film lost its way and fell into the clutches of sentimental melodrama.
It opens on a railroad engineer going to work. They were so happy,” she said. This makes for a low key and oft-boring “hangout” film, albeit one with a compelling doom-laden trajectory and at least one great performance.
Sexy, off-putting, charismatic and sharp-edged, Marcia Gay Harden’s Lane stands as a forerunner to nineties movie anti-heroines like those played by Linda Fiorentino in THE LAST SEDUCTION (1994) and Nicole Kidman in TO DIE FOR (1995).
We can relax. The story gets played out as a bisexual revenge thriller; but, it never seems to be totally convincing. “The family is grieving at this time.”
The children’s father, Thaddeus, is Marcia Harden’s brother, according to the publicist. It is set in the dank countryside of New Zealand amid bubbling and unpredictable mud springs, tacky bars, and morbid hospital rooms.
Lane recklessly plays games with all the people she meets, looking down upon their mundane lifestyles and dangerously plays with their emotions. It’s a film that successfully and darkly explores the motives of its three female characters and their ambiguous relationships with others, but fails to stimulate the intellect.
REVIEWED ON 4/23/2001 GRADE: C
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Marcia Gay Harden mops up the screen with her amoral and seductive performance, while Donogh Rees shines in carrying out her malevolent hidden agenda. She needs her husband, or maybe she needs a husband who could be emotionally available to her; Tom is not there for her and hasn’t been for years, pouring all of his passion into trains.
We thought she was going to come right out,” Gylan said.
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A product of the nineties indie film scene, when dark and twisted were in and commercial considerations were very much out. Sinai Hospital of Queens, and Audrey Harden, 10, is in extremely critical condition at the New York Hospital burn center.
The actress, who stars in the current release “Mona Lisa Smile,” is grief-stricken, her publicist said.
“Marcia is very close to her niece and nephew,” the publicist said.
But then the movie veers into a more standard storytelling pattern. Christina’s companion, Lane (Marcia Gay Harden), the driver of the car walks away from the accident unharmed and decides to visit the author the next day, after she first peruses his book and steals her friend’s notes on the author.
Lane meets the author’s serious-minded 15-year-old daughter Angela (Bossley) and takes her to a lowlife bar after loaning her a hot dress.
Lane seduces both father and daughter, who appear to be headed for a fate similar to that which befell Christina, at least before Lane’s overbearing personality alters the dynamic. Lane is a wild spirit, causing a commotion in the author’s quiet household by getting the timid author to go to bed with her. Foremost among them is Lane (Harden), a reckless, self-centered and promiscuous American woman with a Louise Brooks haircut.
Maclean’s sensibilities don’t quite match those of her most obvious progenitor David Lynch or fellow countrywoman Jane Campion (known in 1992 for the Lynchian SWEETIE), being much quieter and more character centered than either. But Christina shows signs of being mentally unbalanced. When a movie jumps the tracks of implacable logic, you may regret it, but you go along with it because you have to.