Harvey
Keitel, Kate Winslet and Director Jane Campion. With talent
like this involved you might expect the Movie to be quality.
Sorry,
but Kate Winslet is the only one to come out of this Movie
without getting singed a little.
The
plot of the Movie is about an Australian woman apparently
becoming brainwashed by a cult and her familys subsequent
attempts to deprogramme her. Harvey Keitel plays the deprogramming
counsellor.
What
goes wrong with this Movie is that Jane Campion does not focus
as much as she should on Winslet & Keitel whose work together
on screen is excellent. She instead quite often centres on
Winslets family in utterly nonsensical irrelevant scenes.
This
serves to lessen the impact of Winslet and Keitel on screen,
Keitel does not get to flesh out his role as much as you would
want to see.
If
Campion had decided to focus on Winslet and Keitel more I
would have had no hesitation in recommending going to see
this Movie. Winslet yet again has turned in an excellent performance
its just a shame the rest of the Movie isn't up to scratch.
Tall
Guy
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