«Rachel, Rachel-- Where are you?»
It has been a very long overdue to release this remarkable movie in DVD. A great film and very moving performance by Joanne Woodward (among her best performances along with her work in Sybil).
[Thursday, January 11, 2007]
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«Very Touching»
This is a very touching movie. The performances are very good. Paul Newman as a director is a natural. Great to see James Olson in any movie.
[Thursday, November 02, 2006]
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«Like a bud opening after a violent storm»
Paul Newman debuted as a director with this movie and it shows. Everything is done so carefully and meticulously that there is hardly any room for anyone to breathe. But at the same time there are some things that work very well - especially the flashbacks, some only a few seconds in lengh.
Joanne Woodward plays a sexually suppressed and totally sheltered middle-aged school teacher. She lives with her mother and her life is so insulated she doesn't know how to even talk to anyone outside her limited circle. One day a schoolmate returns to town (played wonderfully by James Olsen) and seduces her. She immediately falls for him, and so ardently that she frightens him away. Then she thinks she's pregnant, which forces her for the first time to think of her own life, but it turns out to be only a cyst. The whole incident, though, has shaken her into action, and at movie's end she's heading to Oregon and a new life (maybe).
The movie is slow and spare, deliberately so, and at times seems to be weighted down into inertia. But it's got something to say, however minor, and says it well. Worth a watch. Hopefully it will make to DVD soon.
[Tuesday, November 01, 2005]
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